United States Ninth Circuit

In an action challenging California's scheme of reimbursement to foster care homes, summary judgment for defendants is reversed where California was not in "substantial compliance" with the federal Child Welfare Act's (CWA) mandate that a participating state "cover the cost" of certain enumerated items for foster care group homes because it paid at a rate that was approximately 80 percent of actual 1986-1987 costs adjusted for inflation, and the CWA required California to pay in full.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/07/2009
• Decided 12/14/2009
• Published 12/14/2009

Judges

• Before:  ALFRED T. GOODWIN and PAMELA ANN RYMER, Circuit Judges, and GEORGE H. WU, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William F. Abrams, East Palo Alto, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• George Prince, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for the appellees.