AUL files Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of 90 Members of Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 31, 2018) – Today, Americans United for Life submitted a “friend of the court” brief on behalf of a coalition of 90 Members of Congress to the United States Supreme Court, asking the Court to review the petition for review filed by the State of Louisiana in Gee v. Planned Parenthood of Gulf Coast.
The case involves a challenge to a ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that—based on its interpretation of congressional intent in the Medicaid Act—found that individual Medicaid patients have a private right of action to challenge a State’s determination disqualifying their preferred Medicaid provider in federal court.
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