United States Eleventh Circuit
MCCLENDON v. GEORGIA DEP'T OF CMTY. HEALTH, 00-15005
The state agency responsible for administering the Medicaid program has 11th Amendment immunity from a lawsuit demanding a share of tobacco settlement money.
Appellate Information
- Decided 08/17/2001
- Published 08/17/2001
Judges
- CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES, COX and NOONAN, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Eleventh Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Joseph W. Watkins,Lance D. Lourie, Stephen R. Chance, Watkins, Lourie & Roll, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Antonio Ponvert, III, Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, P.C., Bridgeport, CT, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
- For Appellees:
- Harold D. Melton, Per Brage Normark, Georgia Department of Law, Atlanta, GA, Sidney Ray Barrett, Jr., Porter & Barrett, Georgia Dept. of Law, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.