State ex rel. Department of Social Services v. Selby

DANIEL E. SCOTT, Judge.

This is a prohibition proceeding. We quash our preliminary order.1

*329Procedural Background

The complicated procedural background includes four proceedings in three courts, including a prior appeal to this court. See Cone v. Missouri Dep’t of Soc. Seros., 227 S.W.3d 540 (Mo.App.2007). We recite only those matters necessary for this opinion. Relator denied Grace Howard’s 2004 application for Medicaid benefits. She unsuccessfully reapplied in 2005, and sought circuit court review of that denial.2 Ms. Howard died in May 2006, but the review proceeding continued (eventually with…