Ward v. Wallace

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

This class action lawsuit is a challenge to the policy of the Alabama Medicaid program of automatically including the income of an applicant’s siblings and grandparents when determining the applicant’s financial eligibility to receive Medicaid benefits. The plaintiffs, who have been denied participation in the state Medicaid program because of this policy, ask the court to declare that the policy impermissibly conflicts with federal law and to award the plaintiff class appropriate relief.

For reasons that follow, the court concludes that the…