- Docket No.
- 25-2165
- Appellate Court
- First Circuit
Goal
- Block enforcement of a law
- Declaration that a law is unlawful
Issues
Case History
Litigation Content
Why this Matters:
The plaintiffs challenge a provision in the recently enacted reconciliation legislation prohibiting certain health centers that provide abortions that fall outside of the narrow exceptions in the Hyde Amendment, including those associated with Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid reimbursement for one year as violating the Spending Clause of the Constitution. These clinics provide access to care for many clinically underserved and low-income populations, and this provision could force clinics to close or reduce their service areas, eroding access to maternal health care and other non-abortion services. This appeal addresses whether the district court erred in granting the plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction.
Potential Impact:
Terminating funding could force qualifying clinics to close centers and eliminate essential services, which would leave countless individuals without necessary access to sexual and reproductive health care, as well as general preventive health services.
12 Major Filings
- ORDER ON MOTION FOR STAY PENDING APPEAL (Dec 30, 2025)
- DEFENDANTS' LETTER RE: REMAND (Dec 23, 2025)
- PLAINTIFFS' SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF (Dec 19, 2025)
- DEFENDANTS' SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF (Dec 17, 2025)
- PROPOSED AMICUS BRIEF [AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE] (Dec 17, 2025)
- PLAINTIFFS' REPLY RE: MOTION FOR STAY (Dec 16, 2025)
- SCHEDULING ORDER (Dec 14, 2025)
- PROPOSED AMICUS BRIEF [AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE] (Dec 12, 2025)
- PLAINTIFFS' RESPONSE TO MOTION FOR STAY (Dec 11, 2025)
- ORDER ON MOTION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE STAY (Dec 8, 2025)
- DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR STAY AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAY (Dec 8, 2025)
- DEFENDANTS' NOTICE OF APPEAL (Dec 4, 2025)