Ledet v. Fischer

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

JOHN V. PARKER, Chief Judge.

This matter is before the court on a motion for class certification and a motion for preliminary injunction. Plaintiff is a Medicaid eligible 1 disabled widow and recipient of Supplemental Security Income [SSI], who is in need of eyeglasses. Plaintiff owns only a broken, unusable, unrepairable pair of eyeglasses and is unable to afford new eyeglasses and related services which she desires to obtain from an optometrist. The evidence introduced at the evidentiary hearing on plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction…