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COUNTY OF COLUSA v. DOUGLAS

No. C073624.

227 Cal.App.4th 1123 (2014)

174 Cal. Rptr. 3d 421

COUNTY OF COLUSA et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. TOBY DOUGLAS, as Director, etc., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

As modified July 11 and 18, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, Margaret R. Prinzing , Karen Getman and Harry A. Berezin for Plaintiffs and Appellants (all counties).

Marcos A. Kropf , County Counsel (Colusa); Wendy B. Chaitin , County Counsel (Humboldt), Karen Roebuck , Deputy County Counsel; Colleen J. Carlson , County Counsel (Kings), Diane Walker , Deputy County Counsel; John F. Krattli , County Counsel (Los Angeles), Stephanie Jo Farrell , Deputy County Counsel; Brina A. Latkin , County Counsel (Mendocino); Charles J. McKee , County Counsel (Monterey), Stacy L. Saetta and Anne K. Brereton , Deputy County Counsel; Minh C. Tran , County Counsel (Napa), Janice D. Killion , Deputy County Counsel; Nicholas S. Chrisos , County Counsel (Orange), James C. Harman , Deputy County Counsel; Gerald O. Carden , County Counsel (Placer), Valerie D. Flood , Deputy County Counsel; Pamela J. Walls , County Counsel (Riverside); John F. Whisenhunt , County Counsel (Sacramento), Rick J. Heyer , Deputy County Counsel; Rita L. Neal , County Counsel (San Luis Obispo), David M. Stotland , Deputy County Counsel; John C. Beiers , County Counsel (San Mateo), John D. Nibbelin and Peter K. Finck , Deputy County Counsel; Orry P. Korb , County Counsel (Santa Clara), Danny Y. Chou , Assistant County Counsel, Greta S. Hansen , Deputy County Counsel; Bruce D. Goldstein , County Counsel (Sonoma), Phyllis C. Gallagher , Deputy County Counsel; John P. Doering , County Counsel (Stanislaus), William Dean Wright and Alice E. Mimms , Deputy County Counsel; Kathleen Bales-Lange , County Counsel (Tulare), Julia C. Langley , Deputy County Counsel; Sarah Carrillo , County Counsel (Tuolumne), and Christopher J. Schmidt , Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiffs and Appellants (individual counties).

Cota Cole and Derek P. Cole for Plaintiff and Appellant Trinity County.

Hooper, Lundy & Bookman and Mark E. Reagan for California Association of Health Facilities as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Julie Weng-Gutierrez , Assistant Attorney General, Ismael A. Castro and Lisa A. Tillman , Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

BUTZ, Acting P. J. —

We conclude that Welfare and Institutions Code section 14053.1 — under which the State of California, rather than its counties, pays for ancillary outpatient services for Medi-Cal eligible patients ages 21 to 64 in an "institution for mental diseases" (IMD) — remains a valid law.1

In reaching this conclusion, we find that section 14053.1's presence in the...

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