LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ U.S. Department of Justice attorneys want a different
judge to deciding a lawsuit challenging a work requirement for Arkansas’
Medicaid program.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports a filing on Tuesday asks U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who decided a similar lawsuit in Kentucky, to turn down the assignment and have a judge chosen at random
The filing says the Arkansas case is related to the Kentucky case. Boasberg
ruled in June Kentucky’s work requirement violates law because it doesn’t consider how it would affect providing health coverage, which he said is the intent of the Medicaid program.
Both cases were filed in Washington, D.C., by the National Health Law Program
and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Jonesboro-based Legal Aid of Arkansas is
helping with the Arkansas case.
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