United States First Circuit

Due to recent amendment of Medicaid law, in claiming that federal law required State to pay class of Medicaid recipients a portion of the proceeds from the settlement of its claims against the tobacco industry, plaintiff failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/28/2002
• Published 01/28/2002

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and YOUNG, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Antonio Ponvert III, with whom Michael A. St. Pierre, James E. Kelleher, Revens, Revens & St. Pierre, and Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, P.C., were on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Neil F.X. Kelly, Special Assistant Attorney General, with whom Sheldon Whitehouse, Attorney General, was on brief for appellees.