Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Illinois Council on Long Term Care, Inc. (529 U.S. 1)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided February 29, 2000 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 529 U.S. 1 · 120 S. Ct. 1084
- Decided
- February 29, 2000
- Term
- October Term 1999
- Vote
- 5–4
- Majority author
- Justice Breyer
- Issue area
- Judicial Power
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
Justice Breyer delivered the opinion of the Court. The question before us is one of jurisdiction. An association of nursing homes sued, inter alios, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and another federal party (hereinafter Secretary) in Federal District Court claiming that certain Medicare-related regulations violated various statutes and the Constitution. The association invoked the court’s federal-question jurisdiction, 28 U. S. C. § 1381. The District Court dismissed the suit on the groiind that it lacked jurisdiction. It believed that a set of special statutory provisions creates a separate, virtually exclusive, system of administrative and judicial review for denials of Medicare claims; and it held that one of those provisions explicitly barred a § 1331 suit. See 42 U. S. C. § 1395Ü (incorporating into the Medicare Act 42 U. S. C. § 405(h), which provides that “[n]o action... to recover on any claim” arising under the Medicare laws shall be “brought under section 1331 ... of title 28”). The Court of Appeals, however, reversed. We conclude that the statutory provision at issue, § 405(h), as incorporated by § 1395Ü, bars federal-question jurisdiction here. The association or its members must proceed instead through the special review channel that the Medicare statutes create. See 42 U.S.C. §§1395cc(h), (b)(2)(A), 1395Ü; §§ 405(b), (g), (h). I A We begin by…
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