Snider v. Temple University

How later courts describe this case

• invalidating, inter alia, 14% rate reduction based on a "budget neutrality adjustment", for failure to comply with 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(13)(A)
• This court rejected as “disingenuous” defendant’s efforts to support summary judgment on all claims where it only sought summary judgment as to some claims.
• fact that bond requirement effectively deprived indigent plaintiffs of preliminary injunction did not work a sufficient hardship, because the underlying issue could still be resolved by the underlying litigation
• “Rule 56(c) allows a court to grant a summary judgment in favor of a party that did not request it”
• “As to the inadequacy of legal remedies, the Eleventh Amendment bar to an award of retroactive damages against the [state] clearly establishes that any legal remedy is unavailable and the only relief available is equitable in nature.”
• two years elapsed between filing of complaint and proposed amendment
• setting forth the elements of collateral estoppel