HILLBURN BY HILLBURN v. MAHER

Nos. 853, 897, Dockets 85-7900, 85-7908.

795 F.2d 252 (1986)

Dale HILLBURN, by his parents and next friends Ralph and Eleanor HILLBURN, James Corbett, by his next friend Roberta Reid, Sandra Fuchs, by her mother and next friend Florence Fuchs, Stephen Kaplanka and Mark Kaplanka, by their mother and next friend Dorothy Napolitano, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. Edward MAHER, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Income Maintenance, and New Brook Hollow Health Care Center, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, Edward Maher, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Income Maintenance, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 30, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Shaw, Hartford, Conn. (Trowbridge, Ide & Greenwald, P.C., Shelley White, Hartford, Conn., on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants-cross-appellees.

Hugh Barber, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn. (Joseph I. Lieberman, Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn., on brief), for defendant-appellee-cross-appellant.

Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. (Frank J. Laski, Judith A. Gran, Philadelphia, Pa. of counsel), filed a brief for amicus curiae The Ass'n for Retarded Citizens, Connecticut.

Before KEARSE and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges, and POLLACK, District Judge.


KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs Dale Hillburn, et al., recipients of aid under the Medicaid program, Title XIX of the Social Security Act ("Title XIX" or "Medicaid Act"), as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396-1396p (1982 & Supp. I 1983 & Supp. II 1984), who reside in "skilled nursing facilities" ("SNFs") in the State of Connecticut ("State"), appeal on behalf of themselves and a class of those similarly situated, from a final judgment entered in...

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