Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center for Women v. Knoll

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the state must “provide such methods and procedures relating to the utilization of, and the payment for care and services available under the plan ... as may be necessary to safeguard against unnecessary utilization”
• deferring to HHS directive interpreting Hyde Amendment restricting use of Medicaid funds to fund abortions, and holding that HHS interpretation preempted Pennsylvania law
• deeming HCFA's letter to state Medicaid directors that interpreted Medicaid statute to be interpretive guidance because it \clarifies and explains existing law\
• reasoning, pre-Mead, that Chevron “deference is appropriate here even though the Secretary’s interpretation is not contained in a ‘legislative rule’”
• Chevron deference is appropriate “ even though the Secretary’s interpretation is not contained in a ‘legislative rule’ ”
• \We must give substantial deference to an agency's construction of its own regulation.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).