Exceptional Child Center, Inc. v. Richard Armstrong; Leslie Clement

FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
EXCEPTIONAL CHILD CENTER, INC.;
INCLUSION, INC.; TOMORROW’S
HOPE SATELLITE SERVICES, INC.;
WDB, INC.; LIVING INDEPENDENTLY
FOR EVERYONE, INC.,
Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
RICHARD ARMSTRONG; LESLIE
CLEMENT,
Defendants-Appellants.
No. 12-35382
D.C. No.
1:09-cv-00634-
BLW
ORDER
On Remand From The United States Supreme Court
Filed May 14, 2015
Before: Richard C. Tallman and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit
Judges, and Stephen Joseph Murphy,* District Judge.
* The Honorable Stephen Joseph Murphy III, United States District
Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, sitting by designation.

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ORDER
The original decision entered by this court, reported at
567 F. App’x 496, was reversed by the Supreme Court of the
United States. The Court held that the Supremacy Clause
does not provide an implied private right of action and that
Medicaid providers do not otherwise have the ability to
proceed in equity for enforcement of § 30(A) of the Medicaid
Act. See Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Ctr., Inc., 135 S. Ct.
1378 (2015). Accordingly, the Supreme Court has now
specifically addressed the question our court had previously
addressed, and the opinion upon which we relied, Indep.
Living Ctr. of S. Cal. v. Shewry, 543 F.3d 1050 (9th Cir.
2008), is no longer valid and is overruled. See Miller v.
Gammie, 335 F.3d 889, 893 (9th Cir. 2003) (en banc). In
accordance with the Supreme Court’s opinion, we vacate the
district court’s injunction, and remand with direction to the
district court to dismiss the Complaint for failure to establish
a claim over which we have subject matter jurisdiction under
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1).
REVERSED and REMANDED.

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