McClendon v. Georgia Department of Community Health
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
This lawsuit is an attempt by Medicaid recipients in Georgia who have been injured by the use of tobacco products to obtain from the State a portion of the proceeds that it is due to receive under the $206 billion “Master Settlement Agreement” consummated by the tobacco industry and 46 states in 1998. Georgia is scheduled to receive $4.8 billion under that agreement, and the plaintiffs contend that the Medicaid Act, 42 U.S.G. §§ 1396 et seq., entitles them to some of that money. The defendants, who are various Georgia officials and a State agency, think otherwise. The…
Also in this document: Concurring in the judgment.
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