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Watching a Juris Doctor Save Lives: Partnering with Lambda Legal to Fight for Healthcare for All
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Watching a Juris Doctor Save Lives: Partnering with Lambda Legal to Fight for Healthcare for All

Together with Lambda Legal and Walt Auvil of the Employment Law Center in West Virginia, my firm Nichols Kaster filed suit against West Virginia Medicaid on behalf our clients Christopher Fain and Shauntae Anderson. In that case, Fain v. Crouch, we challenged the state Medicaid program’s categorical exclusion of gender affirming surgical care under the Equal Protection Clause, the Affordable Care Act, and the Medicaid Act.

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