Foley Hoag has filed an amicus brief in the District of Massachusetts on behalf of 119 Deans and Scholars and five public health and medical organizations in support of a lawsuit filed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) against U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The AAP's suit seeks to stop changes to the new federal child and adolescent immunization schedule.
The amici are leading public health Deans, scholars, and organizations—including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Network for Public Health Law, and the American Thoracic Society—who argue that downgrading pediatric vaccines from routine recommendations without changes in underlying science or use of an established evidence‑based process will cause unnecessary disease outbreaks, resulting in preventable hospitalizations and deaths, with disproportionate harm to underserved populations.
The Foley Hoag team representing the clients is led by Andrew London, Caroline Farrell and Marilyn Icsman.