Order Granting Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Brantley, et al. v. Maxwell-Jolly, Director of California Department of Health Care Services

September 10, 2009 On August 18, 2009, a class action lawsuit, Brantley, et al. v. Maxwell-Jolly, Director of California Department of Health Care Services, was filed to contest cuts in Medi-Cal Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) services. The cuts restrict low-income elderly individuals with disabilities to receiving services only three days per week. Previously, Medi-Cal covered five days of ADHC services. The lawsuit challenges the legality of two aspects of the cuts. First, the reduction does not take the recipients' health problems into account. In addition, if the state permits the maximum number of days to . . .