Federal Appeals Court Upholds Injunction Preventing Idaho From Cutting DD Waiver Budgets

On June 5, 2015, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower district court ruling in March 2014 that prevented the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW) from reducing individual developmental disability (DD) waiver budgets below the highest annual budget received by a DD waiver participant since June 30, 2011. The ruling was the latest in the K.W. v. Armstrong complaint filed in February 2012 by 16 named plaintiffs on behalf of all DD waiver participants. The court had initially issued a preliminary injunction preventing IDHW from reducing individual budgets for the 16 named plaintiffs below the . . .