Legal Opinion
Brown v. Tennessee Department of Finance & Administration
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 9, 2009No. 07-6163PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge.
The Tennessee Department of Finance appeals the district court’s denial of its motion to vacate a settlement between the parties in a suit for Medicaid benefits. Tennessee argues that the agreed order approving the settlement should be treated as a consent decree and vacated under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(5) because an intervening decision of this Court, Westside Mothers v. Olszewski, 454 F.3d 532 (6th Cir.2006) (“Westside Mothers II”), eliminated the legal basis for the settlement and thus made it inequitable to enforce prospectively. We…
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