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DOUGLAS v. INDEPENDENT LIVING CTR.

Nos. 09-958, 09-1158, 10-283.

132 S.Ct. 1204 (2012)

182 L.Ed.2d 101

Toby DOUGLAS, Director, California Department of Health Care Services, Petitioner v. INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, INC., et al. Toby Douglas, Director, California Department of Health Care Services, Petitioner v. California Pharmacists Association et al. Toby Douglas, Director, California Department of Health Care Services, Petitioner v. Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 22, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karin S. Schwartz , San Francisco, CA, for Petitioners.

Edwin S. Kneedler , for the United States, as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the Petitioners.

Carter G. Phillips , Washington, DC, for Respondents.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General of California, Manuel M. Medeiros , State Solicitor General, David S. Chaney , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Douglas M. Press , Julie Weng-Gutierrez , Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Richard T. Waldow , Karin S. Schwartz , Counsel of Record, Susan M. Carson , Jennifer M. Kim , Supervising Deputy Attorneys General, Gregory D. Brown , Carmen Snuggs , Deputy Attorneys General, San Francisco, CA, Dan Schweitzer , of Counsel, Washington, DC, for Petitioners.

Michael S. Sorgen , Law Offices of Michael S. Sorgen, San Francisco, CA, Dean L. Johnson , Dean L. Johnson, Inc., Carlsbad, CA, Carter G. Phillips , Counsel of Record, Eric A. Shumsky , Quin M. Sorenson , Lowell J. Schiller , Amy L. Hanke , Joshua J. Fougere , Lyndsay N. Huot , Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC, for Respondents Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, et al.

Craig J. Cannizzo , Lloyd A. Bookman , Jordan B. Keville , Felicia Y. Sze , Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, P.C., Los Angeles, CA, Deanne E. Maynard , Counsel of Record, Seth M. Galanter , Nicholas George Miranda , Morrison & Foerster LLP, Washington, DC, for Intervenor Respondents and California Pharmacists Respondents.

Stephen P. Berzon , Counsel of Record, Scott A. Kronland , Stacey M. Leyton , Matthew J. Murray , Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Dominguez Respondents.

Stanley L. Friedman , Los Angeles, CA, Lynn S. Carman , Counsel of Record, Novate, CA, for Respondents Independent Living Center of Southern California, Inc., et al.

Justice BREYER delivered the opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari in these cases to decide whether Medicaid providers and recipients may maintain a cause of action under the Supremacy Clause to enforce a federal Medicaid law—a federal law that, in their view, conflicts with (and pre-empts) state Medicaid statutes that reduce payments to providers. Since we granted certiorari, however, the relevant circumstances have changed. The federal agency in charge...

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