Kate Ternus v. Hilgers
Nebraska mother fights back against state restrictions on childbirth choices
Kate Ternus challenges Nebraska’s ban on midwife-assisted home births, arguing it violates the Fourteenth Amendment.
Emily Tvrdy and Amanda Musilek v. Hilgers
Pregnant mothers fight for the right to give birth on their own terms
Pregnant Nebraska mothers challenge the state’s ban on midwife-assisted home births, arguing it violates the Fourteenth Amendment and religious freedom.
Hope Lindstrom v. Hilgers
Nebraska mother fights back against state control of childbirth choices
Nebraska mother files lawsuit to protect her right to birth freedom.
Dr. Sean Wells, et al. v. Kennedy, et al.
Physical therapists defend their livelihoods and the patients Medicare won’t let them treat
Dr. Wells and UPTA are fighting back. Their federal lawsuit challenges Medicare’s discriminatory ban on private-pay physical therapy to protect their livelihoods and broaden Americans’ access to providers who best fit their needs—not the government’s.
Kōloa Rum Company v. Noem
Fighting to end the Jones Act’s century-old, discriminatory shipping laws
Bob Gunter and Kōloa Rum Company are fighting back with a federal lawsuit challenging the Jones Act’s constitutionality under the Port Preference Clause.
Aerospace Solutions, LLC v. Hegar
Racial set-asides deny equal treatment and opportunity in Texas contracting
Aerospace Solutions has filed a federal lawsuit to restore fair competition in Texas’ contracting and ensure public contracts go to the most qualified bidders, regardless of race.
Swanson v. Hilgers
Nebraska midwife entrepreneur fights unjust ban on her profession
Heather Swanson believes that the ability of mothers to choose where and how to give birth is an important right. Yet these foundational freedoms are under siege by a Nebraska law that defies logic and basic human rights. It is the only state to outright ban CNMs from home births; failure to comply is a felony. Meanwhile, lay midwives and doulas, which are wholly unregulated by the state, face no such restrictions. Represented free of charge by Pacific Legal Foundation, she is fighting back with a federal challenge to Nebraska’s law. A win would alleviate the burden on the state’s childbirth system, allow CNMs to provide midwifery free of arbitrary restriction, and add a safe new layer of choice for expecting mothers.
Tilt Vision Studios, LLC, et al. v. The City of Waller, Texas
Artists fight government whitewash of free expression and livelihoods
Under the First Amendment, however, the government cannot restrict expression that it doesn’t like. Yet the City of Waller has done just that, enshrining into law its own aesthetic preferences in an effort to kill a thriving art mural business. And similar regulations are popping up in other cities to police “acceptable” types of public expression while trampling free expression and economic freedom.
DiPietro v. Town of Bolton, Massachusetts
Struggling alpaca farmer fights government-sanctioned home equity theft
Alan DiPietro has been raising alpacas and selling their fleece since 2008 in Bolton, Massachusetts, a small, pleasant town in the state’s Nashoba Valley Region. By 2014, Alan’s alpacas needed more land, so he bought 34 acres that spanned Bolton and the adjacent Town of Stow. The property was undeveloped, so the 50-year-old former engineer mowed some existing fields and installed natural fencing and other small structures necessary to run an alpaca farm.