A federal judge in Chicago recently ruled that he would likely order an injunction exempting 500,000 children in foster care from a new Medicaid regulation requiring recipients to show proof of citizenship, according to plaintiffs’ lawyers in a class action lawsuit challenging the regulation. John Bouman, an attorney representing the plaintiffs for the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, said the judge did not rule on the fairness or propriety of the documentation requirement itself. Instead, he ruled that they did not have standing at this time to challenge the Department of Health and Human Services regulation.
“He ruled that the harm to plaintiffs flows from the statute, not the regulation, so the plaintiffs’ challenge to the regulation is unavailing,” the Center said. Attorneys for the plaintiffs plan to reformulate the pleadings and clarify their request for the court to rule on the validity of the statute.
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