SENIORS UNITED FOR ACTION v. RAY

No. 81-1708.

675 F.2d 186 (1982)

SENIORS UNITED FOR ACTION; South Central Iowa Federation of Labor-Retired Unionists AFL-CIO; Advocator Welfare Answering Service; Earlene Ross; Lillie May Wertz; Donna Krupe; Nancy Good; Mary Ellen Null; Mindy Whitehead; and Deidra Lynn Reilly, On behalf of themselves and all other persons similarly situated, Appellants, v. Robert RAY, Individually and in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Iowa; Michael V. Reagen, Individually and in his official capacity as Commissioner, Iowa State Department of Social Services; and Donald Kassar, Individually and in his official capacity as Chief, Bureau of Medical Services, Iowa State Department of Social Services, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 9, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Ozga, Carroll L. Lucht, Legal Services Corp. of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa, for appellants.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen. of Iowa, John G. Black, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Candy Morgan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, Iowa, for appellees.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, ARNOLD, Circuit Judge, and WOODS, District Judge.


WOODS, District Judge.

Plaintiffs brought this action seeking to enjoin the continued implementation of policy changes begun July 1, 1980 in the Medicaid program of the State of Iowa, which resulted from house file 2580, passed by the Iowa House of Representatives on April 18, 1980, by the Iowa Senate on April 24, 1980, and signed by the Governor on May 26, 1980. These policy changes provided, inter alia, for the elimination of payment for laxative drugs, the...

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