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Take Back the Courts: Children's Rights

  • Organization: NCRCR
  • Document Type: Brief/Motion Papers
  • Date Created: Thursday, September 17, 2009
  • Submitted: Thursday, September 17, 2009
  • Attachment(s): HTM

This clip focuses on the Westside Mothers, a group of parents using Medicaid as health insurance for their children. In 2001, they brought the state of Michigan to federal court because their children were not getting the health care the state had promised them. When their case came before the federal judge he denied the mothers their day in court by using a legal theory that would close the courthouse doors to mothers like them everywhere.