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Index of APA Amicus Briefs by Issues
Listing of the amicus Briefs by issues. Each of the titles below links to a one-page summary. Selected full-text Briefs are linked below. Please note that the PDF files may take time to download, as they are very large files.

Abortion
Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc. (mandated pre-abortion counseling)
Bowen v. Kendrick (mandatory counseling; adolescent abortion) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Harris v. McRae (abortion rights; Medicaid funding)
Hartigan v. Zbaraz (parental notification) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Hodgson v. State of Minnesota (parental notification) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc. (parental notification)
(Read Full- Text Amicus Brief )
Planned Parenthood of S.E. Pennsylvania v. Casey (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
(Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services

Affirmative Action
Comfort v. Lynn (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Animal Research
International Primate Protection League v. Institute for Behavioral Research
(Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) v. University of Washington
(Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Antitrust
Blue Shield of Virginia v. McCReady (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief)
Patrick v. Burget
Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychologists v. Blue Shield of Virginia

Battered Women's Syndrome
Hawthorne v. State of Florida (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
New Jersey v. Kelly (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Child Abuse/Child Witnesses
Alaska v. R.H. Wetherhorn (child abuse reporting laws) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief)
Kentucky v. Stincer (protection of child witnesses) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Maryland v. Craig (protection of child witnesses) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Child Sexual Abuse
Stogner v. California (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Civil Commitment
Rone v. Fireman (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Wyatt v. Aderholt

Competency
Atkins v. Virginia (to be executed)
Colorado v. Connelly (to waive rights) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Ford v. Wainwright (to be executed) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
McCarver v. North Carolina (to be executed) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Sell v. U.S. (to stand trial) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
U.S. v. Gomes (to stand trial) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Confidentiality/Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege
Alaska v. R.H. Wetherhorn (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief)
Detroit Edison Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Hudgins v. Moore (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Jaffee v. Redmond (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Levy v. Edelhofer
Menendez v. State of California (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Oregon v. Miller (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Smith v. Murray (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
United States v. Byers (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Copyright
Faulkner v. National Geographic Enterprises (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Criminal Defendants' Right to Mental Health Assistance (Psychiatric Evaluations)
Ake v. Oklahoma (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Smith v. Murray (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Death Penalty
Ake v. Oklahoma (right to court-appointed psychiatric evaluation) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Atkins v. Virginia (mentally retarded)
Ford v. Wainwright (competency) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Lockhart v. McCree (death qualified juries) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
McCarver v. North Carolina (mentally retarded) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Penry v. Lynaugh (mentally retarded) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Roper v. Simmons (juveniles) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Smith v. Murray (use of data in capital sentencing hearing) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Defamation
Hutchinson v. Proxmire (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Disabilities/Rights under the ADA
Goodman v. Georgia (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Duty to Warn/Protect
Alaska v. R.H. & Wetherhorn (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief)
Currie v. United States (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Emerich v. Philadelphia Center for Human Development, Inc. (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Estate of Davis v. Yong-Oh Lhim (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Ewing v. Goldstein (Read the Letter of Petition for Review )
Hedland v. Superior Court of Orange County (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Menendez v. State of California (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Williamson v. Liptzin (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Employment
Forrest v. Ambach (First Amendment) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. (sexual harassment) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (gender) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Soroka v. Dayton Hudson Corp. d.b.a. Target Stores
Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust (race)

Environmental Impact Analyses
Metropolitan Edison Co. v. People Against Nuclear Energy (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

ERISA
Insurance Board v. Muir (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Massachusetts (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Expert Witnesses/Psychologists' Competency
Chandler v. Morris (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Hawthorne v. State of Florida (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Horne v. Goodson Logging Co. (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Huntoon v. TCI Cablevision (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Jenkins v. United States (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Landers v. Chrysler Corp. (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Martin v. Benson (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
New Jersey v. Kelly (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
People v. Gil
Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Schudel v. General Electric (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
U.S. v. Fields (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Parenting
Boswell v. Boswell (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief)
Bottoms v. Bottoms (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief)
Delong v. Delong (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief)
Hertzler v. Hertzler (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
In Re Adoption of Luke (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Hospital Privileges for Psychologists
CAPP v. Rank (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Insanity Defense
Ake v. Oklahoma (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Jenkins v. United States (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
United States v. Brawner (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
United States v. Byers (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
United States v. Lyons

Medicare
National Kidney Patient's Association v. Sullivan (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Medication (Right to Refuse)
In re Bryant (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Mills v. Rogers
Riese v. St. Mary's Hospital & Medical Center (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Rivers v. Katz (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Sell v. United States (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
United States v. Charters (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
United States v. Gomes (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
United States v. Leatherman
Washington v. Harper

Mentally Ill and Mentally Retarded (Rights of)
Atkins v. Virginia
City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc. (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
McCarver v. North Carolina (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Olmstead v. L.C.
Penry v. Lynaugh (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Rone v. Fireman (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
United States Dept. of Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms v. Galioto
Wyatt v. Aderholt
Youngberg v. Romeo

Neuropsychologists' Competency (Brain Injury Assessment)
Chandler v. Morris (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Horne v. Goodson Logging Co. (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Huntoon v. TCI Cablevision of Colorado (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Landers v. Chrysler Corporation (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Martin v. Benson (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Schudel v. General Electric (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Peer Review
Patrick v. Burget

Psychologists' Scope of Practice/Reimbursement for "Mental Health" Services
Blue Shield of Virginia v. McCReady (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief)
Bucy v. Bucy (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
CAPP v. Rank (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Ford v. Norton
Miller v. City of Poughkeepsie (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Massachusetts (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
(Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychologists v. Blue Shield of Virginia

Residential Treatment
City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Olmstead v. L.C.
Rone v. Fireman (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Sexual Harassment
Harris v. Forklift (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )

Sexual Orientation
Andersen v. King County (discrimination; same-sex marriage) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
BenShalom v. Marsh (military) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Boswell v. Boswell (visitation) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief)
Bottoms v. Bottoms (custody) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief)
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief)
Boy Scouts of America v. Pool (discrimination) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Bowers v. Hardwick (anti-sodomy law) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Campbell v. Sundquist (anti-sodomy law) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief)
DeLong v. DeLong (custody) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief)
Equality Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, Inc. v. City of Cincinnati (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Hernandez v. Robles (discrimination; same-sex marriage) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Hertzler v. Hertzler (custody) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
In Re Adoption of Luke (custody) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
In re Marriage Cases ( Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Jegley v. Picado (sodomy) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Kentucky v. Wasson (anti-sodomy law) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Lawrence v. Texas (anti-sodomy law) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Lewis v. Harris (discrimination; same-sex marriage) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Li v. Oregon (discrimination; same-sex marriage) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
New York v. Uplinger (anti-sodomy law) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Romer v. Evans (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief)
Samuels v. New York State Department of Health (discrimination; same-sex marriage)
(Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Shields v. Madigan (discrimination; same-sex marriage) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Stover v. State of Georgia (anti-sodomy law) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Texas v. Morales (anti-sodomy law) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Watkins v. United States Army (military)

Scientific Research
Hutchinson v. Proxmire (libel, slander) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
International Primate Protection League v. Institute for Behavioral Research (animal research)
(Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Metropolitan Edison Co. v. People Against Nuclear Energy (environmental impact statement)
(Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
PAWS v. University of Washington (confidentiality of unfunded grant proposals)
(Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
People v. Gil (cognitive research evidence)

Tests (Use, Validity, & Security of Psychological Tests & Test Data)
Detroit Edison Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (confidentiality, test security)
(Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Hudgins v. Moore (misuse of test materials) (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Soroka v. Dayton Hudson Corp. d.b.a. Target Stores
United States v. Brawner (Read Full-Text Amicus Brief )
Watson v. Fort Worth Bank and Trust


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