California Court of Appeal

The trial court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to approve the State Department of Health Service's proposed implementation of procedures to provide Medi-Cal beneficiaries reimbursement for expenses incurred during the three-month period before they apply for assistance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/15/2005
• Published 08/15/2005

Judges

• POLLAK, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Douglas M. Press, Thomas R. Yanger, Teresa L. Stinson, Elizabeth Edwards, Deputy Attorneys General, San Francisco, CA, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sonal Ambegaokar,Barbara K. Frankel, Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, Michael D. Keys, Bay Area Legal Aid, San Francisco, Richard A. Rothschild, Robert D. Newman, Catherine Murphy, Kimberly Lewis, Western Center on Law & Poverty, Los Angeles, for respondents., Barbara Jones, Rochelle Bobroff, Michael Schuster, Washington, DC, AARP as Amicus Curiae on behalf of respondents.