Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center
United States Supreme Court
135 S. Ct. 1378 (2015)
Relevant factsFree
The Medicaid Act's sole express enforcement mechanism for a state's noncompliance with its rate-setting requirements was HHS withholding federal funding; Idaho medical providers (plaintiffs) nonetheless sued the state Medicaid agency (defendant) directly in federal court seeking equitable relief to enforce compliance with the Act's broad, complex rate-setting standard, and the lower courts granted them summary judgment.
IssueFree
Whether Congress has the power to preclude courts from utilizing equitable relief to enforce federal law.