Gray Panthers Project Fund v. Thompson

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KENNEDY, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, four national organizations and individual Medicare beneficiaries, seek declaratory and injunctive relief to require the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to comply with his statutory obligations under 42 U.S.C. § 1395w-24(a)(l) and 42 U.S.C. § lSQSw-^Ud).1 These provisions set out a systematic scheme of activities for the Secretary to undertake “to broadly disseminate information to Medicare beneficiaries ... on coverage options” under the Medicare + Choice program. See 42 U.S.C. § 1395w-21(d)(l).

Before the…