This morning, Pregnancy Justice and Center for HIV Law and Policy, and Elizabeth Frankel and Valerie Wright of the Maine law firm Verrill Dana, LLP, filed an emergency amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief on behalf of 28 public health experts, advocates, and organizations challenging the imprisonment of an HIV positive pregnant woman in order to protect her “innocent” “unborn child.

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United States v. "Ms. T"
June 15, 2009

US District Court of Maine
Amicus Curiae Brief of Medical, Public Health, and HIV Experts and Advocates in Support of Bail Pending Appeal Or, In the Alternative, Re-Sentencing

Ina Cochran v. Kentucky
February 24, 2009

Kentucky Supreme Court
Brief of Amicus Curiae

Amicus Briefs filed in Kentucky Supreme Court
February 24, 2009

Today, February 24th, Pregnancy Justice filed a public health amicus brief on behalf of ACOG, the APA, and other groups before the Kentucky Supreme Court in Cochran v. Commonwealth in a case where a woman was prosecuted for continuing her pregnancy to term in spite of a drug problem.

November 17, 2008

North Dakota Supreme Court
Brief of Amici Curiae North Dakota Women's Network, American Academy of Addition Psychiatry, American Medical Women's Association, National Women's Health Network, National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health International Center for the Advancement of Addiction Treatment's Et. Al

August 05, 2008
US Court of Appeals for 8th Circuit
Brief of Amici Curiae

June 18, 2008

Amicus Brief in Alabama Circuit Court

January 18, 2008

Court of Criminal Appeals for 13th District of TX at Corpus Christi
<a Amicus Curaie

September 20, 2007
Amicus Brief in Support of the Motion to Dismiss the Information in State v. Hernandez
List of Signatories to Hernandez Public Health Amicus Brief