WARD v. WALLACE

Civ. A. No. 84-T-1612-N.

652 F.Supp. 301 (1987)

Monalisa WARD, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, v. George C. WALLACE, etc., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, N.D.

January 5, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles G. Spradling, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Lawrence F. Gardella and Tamara Young, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs.

John C. Bell, U.S. Atty., Kenneth Vines, Asst. U.S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., and James N. Stephens, Acting Regional Atty., Edgar M. Swindell, Asst. Regional Atty., Dept. of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant Heckler.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., and Herman H. Hamilton, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Shapard D. Ashley, Counsel, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants Wallace & Baggiano.

Mary Lee Stapp, James E. Long, Asst. Attys. Gen., Alabama Dept. of Pensions & Security, Montgomery, Ala., for defendant Frazier.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

This class action lawsuit is a challenge to the policy of the Alabama Medicaid program of automatically including the income of an applicant's siblings and grandparents when determining the applicant's financial eligibility to receive Medicaid benefits. The plaintiffs, who have been denied participation in the state Medicaid program because of this policy, ask the court to declare that the policy impermissibly...

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