O. B. v. Felicia Norwood

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal by the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (“HFS”) (Norwood, the nominal defendant-appellant, is sued only in her official capacity as the department’s director) challenges Judge Kocoras’s grant of a preliminary injunction. The appeal requires us to interpret provisions of the Medicaid Act, with which Illinois as a participant in Medicaid is required to comply; HFS is the agency charged with carrying out the state’s duty of compliance.

The Act defines “medical assistance” as including “early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment…