United States Ninth Circuit
Katie A. v. Los Angeles County, 06-55559
A preliminary injunction ordering state agencies to screen members of a statewide class of foster children and, where medically necessary, provide them with certain mental health care is reversed where the district court abused its discretion by relying on an erroneous legal interpretation of the federal Medicaid statute.
Appellate Information
- Argued 10/24/2006
- Decided 03/23/2007
- Published 03/23/2007
Judges
- TASHIMA, Circuit Judge., Before EUGENE E. SILER, JR.,TASHIMA, and BEA, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- Sandra L. Goldsmith, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellants., Robert D. Newman, Esq., Western Center for Law and Poverty, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.