Tennessee Ass'n of Health Maintenance Organizations, Inc. v. Grier

OPINION

NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.

Intervenors-Appellants appeal the district court’s entry of a revised consent decree governing the hearing and appeal procedures in Tennessee’s Medicaid managed care program. The parties to the consent decree were the plaintiffs (the recipients of Medicaid in Tennessee) and the defendants, including the State of Tennessee. Appellants contend that since they were not parties to the consent decree, they can not be bound by it under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Appellants also argue that the district court failed to conduct a…