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In family’s lawsuit against public nursing home, court revisits private rights of action and the spending clause

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VCR is a government nursing facility in Indiana owned by petitioner Health and Hospital Corp., It follows that a third-party beneficiary of a spending clause “contract” — such as the residents of a facility receiving federal funds and charged with protecting those residents — cannot enforce that contract through a Section 1983 action.