BOISE, Idaho, March 28 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho issued the following news release: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Idaho, and the law firm Cooley LLP filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court today in Idaho and Moyle, et al. v. United States. The case was brought to the nation's highest court by Idaho politicians seeking to disregard a federal statute -- the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) -- and put doctors in jail for providi  more

WASHINGTON, April 3 -- The American Public Health Association issued the following news release: On April 24, the Supreme Court will hear Idaho v. United States. This case will determine whether a narrow but powerful nationwide guarantee of access to emergency hospital care protects pregnant women whose medical emergencies require an abortion as stabilizing care to prevent death or severe and long-lasting injury to health. Since 1986, the Emergency Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) has applied   more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Heritage Action for America issued the following statement on April 3, 2024: * * * Heritage Action, a conservative grassroots organization with two million grassroots activists, including thousands of Idahoans, released the following statement from Director of State Advocacy Catherine Gunsalus commending the Idaho Legislature for passing H. 421, legislation that protects kids and combats radical gender ideology by accurately defining sex and gender. "As radical activist  more

BOISE, Idaho, April 6 -- The Independent Women's Voice, an organization that fights for policy solutions for women, issued the following news release on April 5, 2024: Today, Independent Women's Voice (IWV) applauds the passage of Idaho's H.B. 421, inspired by IWV's Women's Bill of Rights (WBOR) model legislation that codifies the common public understanding of sex-based words, such as 'woman' and 'man', already used across state code. The Idaho Legislature follows the lead of other states ins  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, April 4 -- The National Association of Chain Drug Stores issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: NACDS is applauding today the enactment of Idaho House Bill (HB) 596. The legislation -- signed on April 1 by Governor Brad Little (R-ID) -- will help reduce prescription drug prices and preserve Idahoans' access to pharmacies and pharmacy services. HB 596 includes important PBM reforms that confront PBMs' inflationary effects on drug prices and their tactics that f  more

SANTA MONICA, California, April 4 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following news release: Firearm homicides have risen faster relative to the overall national trend in states such as Wisconsin, Delaware, and Minnesota, while firearm suicides have risen faster in Alaska, North Dakota, and Montana, according to a new tool from RAND that allows users to examine state-level firearm death rates over the past four decades. The visualization tool shows that some states have seen reductions in violence re  more

BOISE, Idaho, April 3 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on April 2, 2024: Today the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit (https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/default/files/2024-04/001%20complaint.pdf) against the City of Boise challenging a 70-year-old ordinance that unconstitutionally restricts the use of loudspeakers and megaphones in public spaces. The lawsuit asks Idaho's federal court to halt enforcement of that ordinance and others like it because they violate First Amendment right  more