Gary HARRIS; Susan Haggerty, an individual; Ping Yu, an individual; Luther Rabb, an individual; Medhat Elsadoni, an individual; Dean Lane, an individual; Joan Moxley-Brown, an individual; Mary Phong; Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, LOS ANGELES COUNTY; Los Angeles County Department of Health Services; Thomas L, Garthwaite, MD, Director of Department of Health Services, Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued and Submitted December 1, 2003.
Filed April 27, 2004.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Timothy T. Coates, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellants Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Thomas L. Garthwaite, M.D. and Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.
Mark D. Rosenbaum (argued and brief) and Ben Wizner (brief), ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, and Yolanda Vera (argued), Barbara Frankel, Sonal Ambegoakar, Susan Lee, Michelle Lilienfeld, Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA, Yolanda Arias, Elena Ackel, Silvia R. Argueta, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, Gill Deford, Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc., Willimantic, CT, for all plaintiffs-appellees.
Astrid G. Meghrigian (brief), San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae California Medical Association.
Before PREGERSON, COWEN, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:
On January 28, 2003, the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County1 voted to reduce expenditures by closing Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (Rancho) and by reducing the number of hospital beds at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center (LAC-USC). Rancho is a county hospital dedicated primarily to providing inpatient and outpatient rehabilitative care;...
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