Baker County Medical Services, Inc. v. U.S. Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a mandate that hospitals participating in Medicare treat federal detainees was not a taking
• collecting cases “instruct[ing] that no taking occurs where a person or entity voluntarily participates in a regulated program or activity”
• explaining that participation in Medicare is voluntary
• rejecting hospital’s takings challenge to “its rate of compensation in a regulated industry for an obligation it voluntarily undertook . . . when it opted into Medicare and became subject to” federal statute requiring hospitals to treat all people who seek treatment in emergency departments
• “If the railroad and the [Surface Transportation] Board reach agreement, the land underlying the railway may be transferred to a trail operator (e.g., state, political subdivision, or qualified private organization
• “Although the Hospital contends that opting out of Medicare would amount to a grave financial setback, economic hardship is not equivalent to legal compulsion for purposes of takings analysis.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).