Nightlight Christian Adoptions, et al. v. Thompson, et al. (2001)

Nightlight Christian Adoptions [3] et al. v. Thompson et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8 March 2001. The suit was filed because Nightlight Christian Adoptions [3], a frozen embryo [4] adoption agency, felt that the Guidelines for Research Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells [5] published by the National Institutes for Health were unlawful and violated the restrictions on human embryo research put into place by the Dickey-Wicker Amendment [6]. Additional plaintiffs with this suit were the Christian Medical Association [7], adult stem cell researcher David A. Prentice, and three couples who were clients of Nightlight. The suit was filed against Tommy G. Thompson [8] in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services; Ruth Kirschstein [9] in her official capacity as Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health [10]; the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); and the National Institutes of Health [10] (NIH).