M.A. ex rel. Avila v. Norwood

OPINION AND ORDER

Joan H. Lefkow, United States District Judge

Children identified as M.A., F.L, Y.R., and H.S., who have been receiving in-home shift nursing services under Illinois’s Medicaid program, have filed this putative civil rights class action against Felicia F. Nor-wood, Director of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) alleging violations of (1) the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, (2) the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) provisions of Title XIX of the Social Security Act (the Medicaid Act), 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396 et…