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DEXTER v. KIRSCHNER

Nos. 91-15062, 91-15409, 91-15422.

972 F.2d 1113 (1992)

Sheri H. DEXTER, Plaintiff-Appellee, Leukemia Society of America, Arizona Chapter, Intervenor-Appellee, v. Leonard J. KIRSCHNER, Director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, Defendant-Appellant, and Arizona Physicians, IPA, Inc., Defendant. Sheri H. DEXTER, Plaintiff-Appellee, Leukemia Society of America, Arizona Chapter, Intervenor-Appellee, v. Leonard J. KIRSCHNER, Director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, Defendant-Appellant. Sheri H. DEXTER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Leonard J. KIRSCHNER, Director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, Defendant, and Arizona Physicians, IPA, Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 18, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. Curran and Logan T. Johnston, Johnston, Maynard, Grant & Parker, Phoenix, Ariz., for defendant-appellant.

David K. Duncan, Meyer, Hendricks, Victor, Osborn & Maledon, P.A., Phoenix, Ariz., for defendant-appellant Arizona Physicians, IPA, Inc.

Heidi L. McNeil and Melinda A. Rigby, Snell & Wilmer, Phoenix, Ariz., for intervenor-appellee.

Before: SCHROEDER, LEAVY, and RYMER, Circuit Judges.

LEAVY, Circuit Judge:

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW

We must decide whether the State of Arizona may, under Medicaid regulations and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, choose to fund one type of bone marrow transplant but not another.

The facts are undisputed. Sheri Dexter, now deceased, suffered from leukemia. She qualified for benefits under Arizona's Medicaid program,1 administered by the Arizona...

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