The Huffington Post, December 18, 2008Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reproductive Rights Just over a month before President George W. Bush’s departure from office, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued a new regulation that will drastically hinder women’s ability to get reproductive health services–including basic care such as contraception, counseling and […]
QUESTION PRESENTED1. Whether the “special needs” exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant and probable cause requirements was properly applied to a discretionary drug testing program that targeted hospital patients and was created and implemented primarily for law enforcement purposes by police and prosecutors? https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Petitioners-Supreme-Court-Brief.pdf
South Carolina In the fall of 1988, staff members at the Charleston public hospital operated by the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) became concerned about an apparent increase in the use of cocaine by patients who were receiving prenatal treatment. When the incidence of cocaine use among maternity patients remained unchanged despite referrals for […]
South Carolina Respondents’ attempt to bring the Search Policy within the scope of the limited special needs exception to the Fourth Amendment fails for three reasons. First, their claim that the Policy served needs beyond the normal needs of law enforcement is belied by their own admissions about the essential role law enforcement played. Second, […]
MOTION OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION, ET AL., FOR LEAVE TO FILE BRIEF AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERSPursuant to Sup. Ct. Rule 37.2(b), Amici – physicians, nurses, public health officers, substance abuse treatment professionals, and medical researchers from around the country, and their professional associations – move for leave to file the […]
BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE RELIGIOUS COALITION FOR REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE, FIFTY-THREE OTHER RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND RELIGIOUSLY AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS, AND FOURTEEN CLERGY AND LAYPERSONS IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENT https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/032900NEamicibrief3.pdf
MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE BRIEF AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERSThe Rutherford Institute hereby respectfully moves the Court for leave to file the following brief amicus curiae on behalf of Petitioners. Counsel for Petitioners has consented to the filing of this brief. The consent of counsel for Respondents was requested and refused.The Rutherford Institute […]
South Carolina The NARAL Foundation et al. hereby move, pursuant to Rule 37 of this Court, for leave to file an amicus curiae brief in support of Petitioners. The motion is necessitated by Respondents’ refusal to consent to the filing of the brief. A copy of Petitioners’ letter providing such consent is submitted herewith. https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/060200SCamicibrief1.pdf
South Carolina Motion of the American Medical Association for leave to file brief as Amicus Curiae in support of neither party… https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Ferguson_AMA.pdf
The Center brought this case on behalf of ten women targeted by a “Search and Arrest” policy initiated in 1989 by the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and local law enforcement officials. Under the policy, MUSC medical personnel secretly searched a targeted group of pregnant women for evidence of cocaine use so that police […]