KATIE A., EX REL. LUDIN v. LOS ANGELES COUNTY

No. 06-55559.

481 F.3d 1150 (2007)

KATIE A., by & through her next friend Michael LUDIN; Mary B., by & through her next friend Robert Jacobs; Janet C., by & through her next friend Dolores Johnson; Henry D., by & through his next friend Gillian Brown; Gary E., by & through his next friend Michael Ludin, individually & on behalf of others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. LOS ANGELES COUNTY; Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services; Does, I thru 100 inclusive; David Sanders, Defendants, and Diana Bontá, Director of CA Dept of Health Services; Rita Saenz, Director of CA Dept of Social Services, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 23, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra L. Goldsmith, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellants.

Robert D. Newman, Esq., Western Center for Law and Poverty, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Before EUGENE E. SILER, JR., TASHIMA, and BEA, Circuit Judges.


TASHIMA, Circuit Judge.

Defendants, the Director of the California Department of Health Services ("DHS") and the Director of the California Department of Social Services ("DSS"), appeal from the district court's grant of a preliminary injunction ordering them to screen members of a statewide class of foster children1 and, where medically necessary, provide the children with the forms of mental health care known as wraparound services and...

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