LEWIS v. RENDELL

Civil Action No. 06-3963.

501 F.Supp.2d 671 (2007)

Zackery D. LEWIS by his next friends; Richard Young; Lynn G. Hainer, Administratrix of the Estate of Addie Smith; Susan W. Coleman; Kathy A. Burger, Tracy Palmer, Kenny Atkinson by his next friend; Bernice Tate by her next friend; The Arc Community Trust of Pennsylvania; and The Family Trust, on their own behalf and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs v. Edward G. RENDELL, in his official capacity as Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Estelle B. Richman, in her official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Nora Dowd Eisenhower, in her official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Aging of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Stephen M. Schmerin, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Labor and Industry of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Calvin B. Johnson, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Gregory C. Fajt, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Revenue of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Thomas Corbett, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Alvania Miller, in her official capacity as Executive Director of the Montgomery County Assistance Office; Chuck Phillips, in his official capacity as Executive Director of Erie County Assistance Office, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

August 3, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen A. Feldman, Feldman & Feldman, Jenkintown, PA, for Plaintiffs.

Doris M. Leisch, Office of General Counsel, Dept. of Public Welfare, Barry N. Kramer, Office of General Counsel, Philadelphia, PA, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM

DuBOIS, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

"The Medicaid. Act is an enormously complicated program. The system is a web; a tug at one strand pulls on every other. Given this complexity, there are untold ways in which a state plan might fail to comply with the Act and the governing regulations." West Virginia v. United States Dept. of Health and Human Services, 289 F.3d 281, 294...

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