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CASILLAS v. DAINES

No. 07 Civ. 4082(PKC).

580 F.Supp.2d 235 (2008)

Terri CASILLAS, Plaintiff, v. Richard F. DAINES, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

August 5, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Caroline Jane Hickey, Jane Greengold Stevens, New York City, Deborah Beth Berkmanm McLaughlin and Stern, LLP, New York City, Franklin Hafner Romeo, New York City, Morton D. Dubin, Orrick, herrigton & Sutcliffe LLP, New York City, Pooja Sunder Gehi, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, New York City, for plaintiff.

Deborah Ellen Hochhauser, Atty. Gen. of State of N.Y., New York City, Jennifer Lynn Johnson, Office of Atty. Gen., Deborah Alyse Dorfman, Martha Anne Calhoun, NYC Law Dept., New York City, for defendant.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

P. KEVIN CASTEL, District Judge.

Plaintiff Terri Casillas alleges that the New York State Commissioner of Health has deprived her of rights protected by the Constitution and federal law in denying her Medicaid coverage for surgeries and services necessary to treat her Gender Identity Disorder ("GID"). According to her complaint, "[i]n persons diagnosed with transsexualism or profound GID, sex reassignment surgery, along with hormone...

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