United States Fifth Circuit

Orders requiring detailed state action, in the administration of a Medicaid program to afford health care to a certified class of indigent children, are vacated where plaintiffs did not establish any violations of Medicare EPSDT provisions which are actionable under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and the Eleventh Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/24/2002
• Published 07/24/2002

Judges

• REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:, Before REAVLEY, SMITH and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alisa Beth Klein,Mark Bernard Stern, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div.-App. Staff, Washington, DC, for U.S., Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan F. Zinn (argued), San Antonio, TX, Edward B. Cloutman, III, Law Offices of Ed Cloutman, Dallas, TX, Jane K. Swanson, The Woodlands, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Matthew F. Stowe (argued), Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.