Legal Opinion
John B. v. Mark Emkes
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 14, 2013No. 12-5307PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.
Consent decrees are not entitlements. Instead, a decree may remain in force only as long as it continues to remedy a violation of federal law. Here, Tennessee’s Medicaid program has operated under a federal consent decree for 15 years. In recent years, however, the State moved to vacate the decree on grounds that the State is now compliant with both the decree and the Medicaid statute. The district court conducted a month-long eviden-tiary hearing to explore those grounds. Afterward, the court issued an exhaustive opinion in which it found that the State has…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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