JOHNSON v. GUHL

No. 99-CIV.-5403 WGB.

91 F.Supp.2d 754 (2000)

Donald H. JOHNSON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Michele K. GUHL, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Human Services, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

April 7, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald M. McHugh, McHugh & Macri, East Hanover, NJ, for plaintiffs.

Shirley B. Whitenack, Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP, Morristown, NJ, for plaintiffs.

Mary F. Rubinstein, DAG, Attorney General of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ, Meredith Van Pelt, Special Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary F. Rubinstein, for defendants Michele K. Guhl, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Human Services, Margaret A. Murray, Director of the New Jersey Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services.

Edwin C. Eastwood, Jr., North Bergen, NJ, for defendant Edward Testa, Director of Bergen County Board of Social Services.

Donald L. Berlin, Berlin, Kaplan, Dembling & Burke, Morristown, NJ, for defendant Elizabeth Lehmann, Director of the Morris County Board of Social Services.


OPINION

BASSLER, District Judge.

"There can be no doubt but that the statutes and provisions in question, involving the financing of Medicare and Medicaid, are among the most completely impenetrable texts within human experience. Indeed, one approaches them at the level of specificity herein demanded with dread, for not only are they dense reading of the most tortuous kind, but Congress also revisits the area frequently, generously cutting and pruning...

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