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May 3, 2018: Judicial Advocacy Update

The AMA and other health care professional organizations argue Trump's travel ban exacerbates physician shortage, medical training and more.

Advocacy Update
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May 17, 2018: Judicial Advocacy Update

The AMA urges courts to uphold appellate rulings on using "reasonable" layperson considerations, sugary-drink distribution tax and more.

Advocacy Update
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Top court to decide: Should doctors be held to lay standard?

Following that standard would have “cataclysmic consequences,” including more meritless lawsuits, higher costs, physicians say in an amicus brief.

Sustainability
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Pennsylvania’s highest court to determine sugary-drink tax’s fate

The AMA says the tax helps lower obesity rates and that ruling against it could also jeopardize nontax initiatives to improve the public’s health.

Public Health
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Travel ban threatens to worsen access to care

AMA joins brief supporting effort to block nationality-based restrictions on immigration and travel. Physicians from Syria and Iran alone handle 14 million patient visits annually.

Health Equity
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Litigation Center case selection criteria

Review the selection criteria if you would like to submit a case for consideration by the Litigation Center.

Judicial Advocacy
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March 22, 2018: Judicial Advocacy Update

Find out how the AMA advocates for pregnant women and their right to informed consent about their options in NIFLA v. Becerra.

Advocacy Update
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Pregnant women deserve to get the whole truth on their options

Pregnancy clinics’ misleading messages create compelling need to protect patients’ right to accurate medical information, the AMA argues in a brief filed with Supreme Court.

Ethics
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Top cases show physicians had a forceful ally in the courts

The Litigation Center of the American Medical Association and State Medical Societies fought existential threats, parried “artful pleadings” in 2017.

Judicial Advocacy