Grace B. Blue v. Clifton M. Craig, Commissioner of the North Carolina Department of Social Services

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

This is a class suit for a declaratory judgment that the North Carolina State Plan for Medical Assistance, 1 fails to provide and thus deprives North Carolina recipients of medical assistance secured to them by Section 1396a, et seq., 42 U.S.C., Title XIX of the Social Security Act, and the regulations promulgated thereunder. 2 The actual deprivation complained of is the failure to provide such recipients with “the necessary transportation to and from the providers of medical services or in the alternative, adequate reimbursement for transportation costs” as…