Yaretsky v. Blum

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, certified by the district court as that class of persons receiving New York State Medicaid assistance who are residents of nursing homes, were granted a permanent injunction by the District Court for the Southern District, Motley, J., enjoining state authorities and nursing homes from discharging or transferring patients to a different level of care without certain procedural safeguards intended to supplement residents’ existing state statutory right to a hearing.1 Also at issue is the district court’s permanent injunction forbidding state officials from…