AMERICAN NURSES ASS'N v. Leavitt

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HENRY H. KENNEDY, JR., District Judge.

Plaintiffs, the American Nurses Association, and two of its constituents, the New York State Nurses Association and the Washington State Nurses Association, bring this action against Michael 0. Leavitt, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and Mark McClellan, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (collectively, “HHS” or the “Secretary”) seeking a declaratory judgment. Plaintiffs assert that HHS has unlawfully permitted inadequate staffing of registered nurses at hospitals that…