Maxwell-Jolly v. Independent Living Center
Opposition to Petition for Cert by National Senior Citizens Law Center and Medicaid Defense Fund.BRIEF IN OPPOSITION
INTRODUCTION
This petition should be denied. The Ninth Circuit
below, in an interlocutory order, judgment and
opinion filed July 11, 2008 (to which the September
17, 2008 Opinion, reprinted by petitioner at Pet. App.
1a-36a, simply “more fully sets forth the rationale,”
id. at 10a), applied settled law to hold that
at 10a), applied settled law to hold thatrespondents may maintain a valid cause of action for
injunctive relief to prevent injury from a state law
which is contrary to, and hence preempted under the
Supremacy Clause by, a federal statute.