California Court of Appeal

The California Department of Health Services wrongly excluded stairway chairlifts from the scope of health coverage for the medically indigent, under the terms of the California Medical Assistance (Medi-Cal) program.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2002
• Published 06/26/2002

Judges

• STEVENS, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Michael J. Kluk,Sacramento, Protection & Advocacy, Inc., Stephen E. Ronfeldt, Public InterestLaw Project, Jane Perkins, National Health Law Program, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California, James M. Humes, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Asher Rubin and Cheryl L. Feiner, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.