United States Second Circuit

The Welfare Reform Act of 1996, 8 USC 1601-66, which prohibits female illegal aliens from receiving Medicaid-sponsored prenatal care, is not unconstitutional with respect to alien mothers but citizen children of alien mothers are entitled to Medicaid benefits.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2000
• Decided 05/22/2001
• Published 05/23/2001

Judges

• JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN, KEARSE, and WINTER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• (Beth D. Jacob, Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, New York, N.Y., submitted a brief for amici curiae Am. Coll. of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Am. Med. Ass'n, Am. Pub. Health Ass'n, Greater N.Y. March of Dimes Birth Defects Found., N.Y. State Pub. Health Ass'n, N.Y. Academy of Med., Pub. Health Ass'n of N.Y. City, Am. Academy of Pediatrics, N.Y. Obstetrical Soc.).


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas M. Bondy, Wash., D.C. (David W. Ogden, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Mark B. Stern, Dep't of Justice, Wash., D.C.;  Loretta E. Lynch, U.S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., on the brief), for defendant-appellant., Richard Blum, New York, N.Y. (Helaine M. Barnett, Scott A. Rosenberg, The Legal Aid Soc'y, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee., Michael D. Hess, Gail Rubin, Elizabeth S. Natrella, N.Y. City Corp. Counsel, New York, N.Y., on the brief, for intervenors-plaintiffs-appellees., Eliot Spitzer, N.Y. State Atty. Gen., Mary Fisher Bernet, Marion R. Buchbinder, New York, N.Y., on the brief, for defendant-appellee.