Opinion

Exceptional Child Center, Inc. v. Richard Armstrong

  • 788 F.3d 991
  • 2015 WL 3540552
Court
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Filed
May 14, 2015
Status
Published
On the bench
Tallman, Bea, Murphy
Nature of suit
Civil
Cited by
1 cases
Authority
More cited than 52.4%

The opinion

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

EXCEPTIONAL CHILD CENTER, INC.; No. 12-35382

INCLUSION, INC.; TOMORROW’S

HOPE SATELLITE SERVICES, INC.; D.C. No.

WDB, INC.; LIVING INDEPENDENTLY 1:09-cv-00634-

FOR EVERYONE, INC., BLW

Plaintiffs-Appellees,

v. ORDER

RICHARD ARMSTRONG; LESLIE

CLEMENT,

Defendants-Appellants.

On Remand From The United States Supreme Court

Filed May 14, 2015

Before: Richard C. Tallman and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit

Judges, and Stephen Joseph Murphy,* District Judge.

*

The Honorable Stephen Joseph Murphy III, United States District

Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, sitting by designation.

2 EXCEPTIONAL CHILD CTR. V. ARMSTRONG

ORDER

The original decision entered by this court, reported at

567 F. App’x 496, was reversed by the Supreme Court of the

United States. The Court held that the Supremacy Clause

does not provide an implied private right of action and that

Medicaid providers do not otherwise have the ability to

proceed in equity for enforcement of § 30(A) of the Medicaid

Act. See Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Ctr., Inc., 135 S. Ct.

1378 (2015). Accordingly, the Supreme Court has now

specifically addressed the question our court had previously

addressed, and the opinion upon which we relied, Indep.

Living Ctr. of S. Cal. v. Shewry, 543 F.3d 1050 (9th Cir.

2008), is no longer valid and is overruled. See Miller v.

Gammie, 335 F.3d 889, 893 (9th Cir. 2003) (en banc). In

accordance with the Supreme Court’s opinion, we vacate the

district court’s injunction, and remand with direction to the

district court to dismiss the Complaint for failure to establish

a claim over which we have subject matter jurisdiction under

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1).

REVERSED and REMANDED.

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