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Greenless v. Almond

277 F.3d 601 (2002)

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Greenless v. Almond

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
277 F.3d 601 (2002)

Facts

Over the course of the 1990s, many states sued major manufacturers of tobacco products for concealing the risks of cigarette smoking, misleading the public, and causing the states to spend substantial funds to provide healthcare for those whose health had been negatively impacted by smoking. The tobacco companies entered into the Master Settlement Agreement with the states. Under the agreement, Rhode Island was to recover approximately $1.4 billion. Blanche Greenless (plaintiff), representing the class of Rhode Island Medicaid recipients who had suffered harm from the use of tobacco, sued the governor of Rhode Island and other state officials (the state officials) (defendants), claiming that the federal Medicaid statute required Rhode Island to pay a portion of the recovery it received from the settlement with the tobacco companies to the class that she represented. The court dismissed the lawsuit. Greenless appealed, contending that the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act that amended the federal Medicaid statute had not repealed the statutory requirement under which the class represented by Greenless would be entitled to a portion of Rhode Island’s settlement recovery.

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Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Lynch, J.)

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