Appleyard v. Wallace

THORNBERRY, Senior Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs brought.suit against the Governor of Alabama and the Commissioner of the Alabama Medicaid Agency, alleging that Alabama’s Medicaid level of care admission criteria violated the Federal Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act, and the equal protection and due process clauses of the constitution. While the action was pending in district court Alabama revised the challenged criteria. The district court subsequently denied the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification and dismissed the action as moot and barred by the eleventh amendment. The…