United States Tenth Circuit

Procedures used to implement a new Colorado law terminating Medicaid benefits to 3,500 aliens violate the Medicaid Act insofar as they deny some members of plaintiff class a right to a hearing. Defendant must be preliminarily enjoined from terminating benefits for failure to return redetermination forms unless notice was given of the right to request a pre-termination hearing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/12/2004
• Published 01/12/2004

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, HENRY, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lucas Guttentag, American Civil Liberties Union, Immigrants' Rights Project, Oakland, CA;  Marc Cohan, Welfare Law Center, Inc., New York, N.Y. (Mary R. Mannix, Anne H. Pearson, and Rebecca L. Scharf, Welfare Law Center, Inc., New York, NY;  Mark Silverstein, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Colorado, Denver, CO;  Gregory Píche, Scott Barker and Stephen Masciocchi, Holland & Hart LLP, Denver, CO;  Linton Joaquin and Gabrielle Lessard, National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles, California;  Tanya Broder, National Immigration Law Center, Oakland, CA;  Jane Perkins, National Health Law Program, Chapel Hill, NC, with them on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General;  John W. Suthers, United States Attorney, Denver, Colorado;  Thomas M. Bondy and Eric D. Miller, Attorneys, Appellate Staff Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., on the brief for Intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Terence P. (Renny) Fagan, Deputy Attorney General (Ken Salazar, Attorney General, Ann Hause, First Assistant Attorney General, and Ilene I. Wolf Moore, Assistant Attorney General, with him on the briefs), Denver, CO, for Defendant-Appellee.