United States Third Circuit

Pennsylvania Medicaid recipients with smoking-related illnesses were not entitled to a portion of tobacco settlement funds obtained by the commonwealth, as Medicaid Act section 1396b(d)(3)(b)(ii) allows states to use such funds for any appropriate expenditure.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/01/2002
• Decided 02/11/2003
• Published 02/12/2003

Judges

• Before ROTH, AMBRO and RENDELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Antonio Ponvert, III (Argued), Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, PC, Bridgport, CT, Edward B. McDaid, McDaid, Flum & Bloom, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mike Fisher, Attorney General, Joel M. Ressler (Argued), Chief Deputy Attorney General, Chief, Tobacco Enforcement Section, Office of Attorney General, Harrisburg, PA, for Appellees.