Legal Opinion
In Re Estate of Turner
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 8, 1986No. C2-85-1136PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMDAHL, Chief Justice.
The sole issue in this ease is whether Minn.Stat. § 256B.15 (1984) denies equal protection to individuals who receive medical assistance after age 65. The law at issue is an estate collection statute which gives the state a claim in a decedent’s estate to recover amounts paid to the decedent in medical assistance, but only as to amounts paid after decedent turned 65. In this case, Amelia Turner’s estate charges that this differentiation between amounts paid to individuals before their 65th birthday and after their 65th birthday is in no way rationally related to a…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Ferguson v. SkrupaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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