Amicus Briefs

The AHA weighs in on a number of issues of importance to hospitals and health systems, as well as the patients they care for, as they come before the court. Below are our most recent friend-of-the-court briefs.

Latest

US Chamber of Commerce files amicus brief supporting legal challenge to rule requiring disclosure of negotiated charges (Feb. 28. 2020).
The AHA and five other national hospital groups today filed a friend-of-the court brief (LINK) urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to affirm a district court decision blocking the Department of Homeland Security’s public charge rule from taking effect while legal challenges to the rule proceed.
Thirty-three state hospital associations late yesterday filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to review this term an appeals court decision that held the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate unconstitutional. 
Motion of Amici Curiae American Hospital Association, Association of American Medical Colleges, Federation of American Hospitals, Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylv
The AHA and five other hospital groups filed a friend-of-the court brief urging the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington to prevent the Department of Homeland Security’s public charge rule from taking effect Oct. 15. 
The AHA and five other hospital groups September 11, 2019, filed a friend-of-the court brief urging th
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed today, the AHA, along with the Federation of American Hospitals, The Catholic Health Association of the United States, America’s Essential Hospitals, and the As
Twenty-four state hospital associations urged the Fifth Circuit to reverse, highlighting
The AHA and Federation of American Hospitals today urged the U.S.
Amici Curiae Brief of the North Dakota Medical Association, North Dakota Hospital Association, American Hospital Association and American Medical Association
The AHA and Federation of American Hospitals amicus brief urging the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to consider hospital electronic communication systems as a virtual "patient care area," and to reestablish a previous NLRB standard that would lawfully permit hospital employers to limit employees' use of these systems to communicate about union organizing.
Download the full amicus brief below. Amicus American Hospital Association (“AHA”) respectful
STANFORD HEALTH CARE; Sutter Bay Medical Foundation, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation, d/b/a PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION for Health Care, Research, and Education; CALIFORNIA HOSPI
June 14, 2018 - Brief of the American Hospital Association, Federation of American Hospitals, The Catholic Health Association of the United States, and Association of American Medical
Filed: March 29, 2018 |  People of the State of California Ex Rel. Xavier Becerra, Plaintiff, vs. Sutter Health, Defendant
Amici curiae are 35 state and regional hospital associations that represent thousands of hospitals and health systems.
Brief of 32 State and Regional Hospital Associations as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction and in Opposition to Defendants' Motion to Dismiss
Hospital groups file brief in cost-sharing subsidies case (Oct. 21, 2017)