WILLIAMS v. ST. CLAIR

No. 78-1625.

610 F.2d 1244 (1980)

Nellie WILLIAMS et al., Plaintiffs, Minnie Merli, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Fred ST. CLAIR et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 28, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis L. Horn, Hazlehurst, Miss., Gill Deford, Nat'l Senior Citizens Law Center, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas E. Childs, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for state defendants.

Robert E. Hauberg, U.S. Atty., L. A. Smith, III, Asst. U.S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Alvin N. Jaffe, Carl H. Harper, Eva H. Goldstein, Asst. Reg. Attys., Dept. of HEW, Atlanta, Ga., for federal defendants.

Before COLEMAN, Chief Judge, RONEY and FAY, Circuit Judges.


COLEMAN, Chief Judge.

In the companion case of Norman v. St. Clair, 610 F.2d 1228, decided today, we addressed the propriety of Mississippi's deeming practices in determining Medicaid eligibility.1 Here we must examine the state's spend-down procedures.2 We find no statutory or constitutional impediment to their operation.

The general operation of the federal...

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