County of Sacramento v. State of California

Opinion

BLEASE, J.

In this appeal from a judgment holding the state and various state officials (state) liable to the County of Sacramento (county) for the county’s unreimbursed expenditures in administering a state-mandated program of “in-home supportive services” for aged, blind and disabled persons, we are called upon to decide the state’s responsibility for funding the program. We hold that the state met its total funding obligation by exceeding the “matching” contribution required to secure federal dollars and that it was not further obligated to reimburse the county for administrative…