Haverhill Manor, Inc. v. Commissioner of Public Welfare

In this suit for declaratory relief, Haverhill Manor, Inc. (Haverhill Manor), challenges the refusal of the Commissioner of Public Welfare (commissioner) to remit to Haverhill Manor certain sums owed Haverhill Manor for the provision of health services. Haverhill Manor asserts that the administrative procedures employed by the commissioner in reaching his determination abridged its rights under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and under the State Administrative Procedure Act (APA), G. L. c. 30A, and that the commissioner had no legal right…