United States Second Circuit

Under 42 USC 1396b(d)(3)(B)(ii) of the Medicaid Act, Medicaid recipients are not entitled to any of the tobacco settlement funds that reimbursed states for Medicaid costs associated with smoking, even those funds that exceed the actual state's smoking related costs.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/01/2001
• Decided 10/17/2001
• Published 10/17/2001

Judges

• THOMPSON, District Judge., Before: NEWMAN and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and THOMPSON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Antonio Ponvert III, Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, P.C., Bridgeport, Conn. (Michael E. Cassidy, Richard T. Cassidy, Hoff, Curtis, Pacht, Cassidy & Frame, P.C., Burlington, Vt., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph L. Winn, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montpelier, Vt. (Donelle Staley, Julie Brill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montpelier, Vt., on the brief), for defendants-appellees., (Frankie Sue Del Papa, Atty. Gen., Reno, Nev., John Albrecht, Senior Dep. Atty. Gen., Reno, Nev., submitted a brief, in support of defendants-appellees, for amici curiae the States of Nevada, et al.).