Access to Justice After Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic

Authors

• Daniel G. Aaron
• Nicole Huberfeld, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University School of LawFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-27-2026

ISSN

2689-0186

Publisher

JAMA Network

Language

en-US

Abstract

Access to justice is “the ability of all people to seek and obtain effective remedies through accessible, affordable, … and culturally competent institutions of justice.”¹ Historically, patients and physicians have worked together to protect the integrity of medical care as well as patients’ rights by challenging unlawful government actions in court. Yet the US Supreme Court recently issued decisions that may impede access to justice, potentially empowering federal, state, and local governments to interfere with evidence-based care. We explore constraints on access to justice that may arise after Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic (PPSA) (606 US 357, 2025), a decision hindering Medicaid patients and clinicians from challenging state violations of federal law.

Recommended Citation

Daniel G. Aaron & Nicole Huberfeld, Access to Justice After Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic , 7 JAMA Health Forum e260072 (2026).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/4212