Equal Access for El Paso, Inc. v. Hawkins

PRADO, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-Appellant Equal Access for El Paso, Inc. (“Equal Access”) appeals the district court’s order granting Defendant Appellee Albert Hawkins’s (“Hawkins”) 1 Motion to Dismiss pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). Equal Access and other plaintiffs brought suit against Hawkins, alleging, inter alia, violations of the “Reasonable Promptness Provision” of the Medicaid Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(8), and the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. 2 For the following reasons, we AFFIRM the district court’s dismissal of Equal Access’s suit.

I. FACTS AND…