In family’s lawsuit against public nursing home, court revisits private rights of action and the spending clause
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
VCR is a government nursing facility in Indiana owned by petitioner Health and Hospital Corp., HHC argues that courts must read Section 1983 against the background of 1871 common law (when Congress enacted the KKK Act); common law at that time did not allow third-party beneficiaries to enforce contracts, particularly government contracts.
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