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LawsuitDetailsTarget of SuitRelief Sought
Index # 907019-24Filed 7.22.2024 in State Supreme Court in Albany County by law firm Bond, Schoeneck and King.
DOH: Suit targets the new FI administrative reimbursement rate methodology
Permanently enjoin the DOH from implementing the new reimbursement methodology.

Declare the new methodology null and void.

Award costs and attorneys' fees to the petitioners.
Index # 907872-24Filed 8.12.2024 in State Supreme Court in Albany County by law firm Littler Mendelson, PC

A request for oral arguments was made on 9.24.2024.
DOH: Suit challenges amendments made to Section 365-f of Social Services Law enacted as part of the State Budget, i.e. the Single Statewide FI.
Permanently enjoin the DOH from implementing the RFP or selecting an awardee.

Declare the amendments to Section 365-f invalid, unconstitutional, and contrary to law.
Index # 908147-24Filed 8.16.2024 in State Supreme Court in Albany County by law firm Bond, Schoeneck and King.

9.20.2024: Oral arguments heard.

9.30.2024: Request for preliminary injunction denied.
DOH: This suit challenges the RFP on several legal grounds.
Stop the state from moving forward with the selection process for the single FI.

Declare the new law (Part HH) unconstitutional.

Allow petitioners to compete fairly for the role of the FI.
Case 1:24-cv-07071 Filed 9.18.2024 in US District Court, Southern District of NY by law firm Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher, LLC.DOH: The plaintiffs argue that this law violates several clauses of the U.S. Constitution. Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief (i.e. for the court to declare the law in question to be unconstitutional) and to prevent the law from being implemented.