Americana Healthcare Center v. Randall

Randall (defendant), living in Washington D.C. but holding power of attorney over his elderly South Dakota mother's accounts and trustee title to her South Dakota house, refused to pay her nursing-home bills to Americana (plaintiff) after she was admitted as an indigent patient; Americana sued under a South Dakota statute requiring financially able adult children to support indigent, aged parents, and Randall challenged the law as violating equal protection and due process.