Legal Opinion
Smith v. Palmer
District Court, N.D. Iowa
Decided October 13, 1998No. C97-3055-MWBPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER REGARDING DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
BENNETT, District Judge.
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This ease reminds the court of something the New York Yankees’ Hall of Fame catcher Lawrence Peter ‘Yogi” Berra once said, “It’s deja vu all over again”. Eighteen years ago, in a case from this district, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the State of Iowa’s policy of denying Medicaid benefits for sex reassignment surgery constituted an arbitrary denial of benefits based solely on diagnosis, type of illness or condition, and was inconsistent with the objectives of the…
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