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Public Charge Amicus Briefs
Amicus briefs filed in federal district courts in Washington, New York, and California in support of three lawsuits on behalf of 21 states against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security challenging the administration's "public charge" rule as illegal discrimination. The briefs, on behalf of a coalition of national disability advocacy organizations, argue that the new rule discriminates on the basis of disability and must be withdrawn.
Affordable Care Act Amicus Briefs
Amicus briefs filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court supporting the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act and outlining how the law has been essential to people with disabilities.
Brown v. District of Columbia
Amicus brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit supporting a class of plaintiffs with physical disabilities seeking transition services from institutional to community-based living in DC.
Curran v. Governor of Delaware
Amicus brief explaining that people with disabilities face pervasive bias and discrimination in health care. Physician-assisted suicide laws are one manifestation of that historic discrimination. People with disabilities should not be coerced into physician-assisted suicide because their lives are deemed less valuable than those without disabilities. Delaware's physician-assisted suicide law has few safeguards to protect people with disabilities, and the law violates the spirit and letter of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Hamm v. Smith
Amicus brief explaining intellectual disability is a condition that is diagnosed using both quantitative and qualitative data. Standardized IQ tests alone cannot substitute for a complete analysis of intellectual functioning. Under the Supreme Court's decision in Atkins v. Virginia, executing people with an intellectual disability violates the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. When assessing whether a person on death row has an intellectual disability, neither clinicians nor courts should treat the existence of multiple IQ test scores as excuse to avoid the need for a complete quantitative and qualitative analysis.







