United States Fifth Circuit

Denial of attorney's fees for plaintiffs following their successful challenge to certain rules adopted by a state agency limiting eligibility for Medicaid health coverage is affirmed where the district court did not err under Erie by refusing to apply the fee-award provision of the Texas Declaratory Judgment Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/30/2006
• Published 03/31/2006

Judges

• BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, SMITH and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Pieter M. Schenkkan (argued), Austin, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• William David Iverson (argued), Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, Nancy Kathleen Juren, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.