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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Debt Collection, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Injury And Tort Law |
| Title: | Arkansas Dep't of Health & Human Servs. v. Ahlborn |
| Date: | 05/01/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1506 |
| Summary: | Federal Medicaid law does not authorize a state's department of health services to assert a lien on a settlement in an amount exceeding the portion of the tort claimant's settlement constituting reimbursement for medical payments made, and a federal anti-lien provision affirmatively prohibits it from doing so. State third-party liability provisions are unenforceable insofar as they compel a different conclusion. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Banking Law, Debt Collection, Education Law, Government Benefits, Government Law |
| Title: | Lockhart v. US |
| Date: | 12/07/05 |
| Case Number: | 04–881 |
| Summary: | The United States may offset Social Security benefits to collect a student loan debt that has been outstanding for over 10 years. |