Perry v. Marteney
West Virginia's mandatory vaccination law for public school students, including those in virtual schools, is constitutional as a neutral, ge…
Healthcare & Conscience
70 articlesAllegheny Reproductive Health Center v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services
Pennsylvania's Medicaid abortion coverage exclusion violates the Pennsylvania Constitution's Equal Rights Amendment because the state funds…
Fischer v. Department of Public Welfare
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's 1985 precedent was overruled in 2024 to apply a tougher constitutional framework for evaluating sex-based c…
Indiana RFRA Abortion Class Injunction (Marion County)
A Marion County judge permanently blocked Indiana from enforcing its abortion law against a certified class of women claiming that obtaining…
Baze v. Rees
The Court examined whether the three-drug execution protocol violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
State v. Worthington
Parents defending themselves against criminal mistreatment and manslaughter charges based on religious freedom rights for faith healing prac…
Benitez v. Brody
The case involves a clash between a physician's religious freedom right to refuse medical services and a patient's right not to be discrimin…
North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group v. Benitez
Religious freedom and free speech rights do not exempt a medical clinic's physicians from complying with the California Unruh Civil Rights A…
Benitez v. North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group
A medical clinic's physicians cannot withhold fertility treatments to homosexuals based on religious beliefs, as this violates the Californi…
C.F. v. New York City Department of Health (Measles Vaccination Case)
A New York state court upheld a New York City Health Department emergency order requiring vaccination against measles in five zip codes.