Susan Lankford v. Gary Sherman

BENTON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs — disabled adult Medicaid recipients- — -seek a preliminary injunction prohibiting Missouri’s Director of Social Services from enforcing a state regulation curtailing the provision of durable medical equipment (“DME”) to most eategorieally-needy Medicaid recipients. See Mo.Code Regs. Ann. tit. 13, § 70-60.010 (2005). Invoking 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Supremacy Clause, U.S. Const. Art. VI, cl. 2, they allege that the regulation violates Medicaid’s comparability and reasonable-standards requirements. See 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396a(a)(10)(B), (a)(17). The district court…