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LINTON BY ARNOLD v. CARNEY BY KIMBLE

No. 3:87-0941.

779 F.Supp. 925 (1990)

Mildred Lea LINTON, by her Next Friend Kathy ARNOLD, on her own Behalf and on Behalf of all Other Persons Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. Belle CARNEY, by her Next Friend Mary KIMBLE, on her own Behalf and on Behalf of all Other Persons Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT, STATE OF TENNESSEE.

United States District Court, M.D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

April 23, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela F. Wright and George Gordon Bonnyman, Legal Services of Middle Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

Jennifer Helton Small, Office of Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for defendant.

Richard F. LaRoche, National Healthcorp, Murfreesboro, Tenn., for amicus Nat. Healthcorp.

Bryon Roscoe Trauger, Doramus & Trauger, Nashville, Tenn., for amicus The Wexford House.

MEMORANDUM

JOHN T. NIXON, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are before the Court seeking to enjoin a Tennessee policy through which only a portion of the beds in Medicaid participating nursing homes are certified to be available for Medicaid patients. Plaintiffs allege that this policy artificially limits the accessibility of nursing home care to indigent Medicaid patients and fosters discrimination against indigent patients by nursing homes. Plaintiffs claim that...

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