United States DC Circuit

The district court's rejection to a challenge to a state of Maine Medicaid demonstration project is reversed, as to the extent the Maine program purports to be different from a flawed Vermont program, it has yet to be considered or approved by the federal government.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2002
• Decided 12/24/2002
• Published 12/24/2002

Judges

• Before:  EDWARDS, HENDERSON, and RANDOLPH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John G. Roberts, Jr. argued the cause for appellant.   With him on the briefs were Jeffrey Pariser and Darrel J. Grinstead., Daniel J. Popeo and Richard A. Samp were on the brief for amici curiae Washington Legal Foundation, et al., in support of appellant., John R. Brautigam, Assistant Attorney General, State of Maine, argued the cause for intervenor Kevin W. Concannon in his capacity as Commissioner of the Maine Department of Human Services.   With him on the brief were G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General, and Paul Stern, Deputy Attorney General.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sushma Soni, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for federal appellees.   With her on the brief were Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., U.S. Attorney, and Scott R. McIntosh, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice., Sarah Lenz Lock, Dorothy Siemon, Bruce Vignery, and Michael Schuster were on the brief for amicus curiae American Association of Retired Persons, in support of appellee.