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Defendants, the Director of the California Department of Health Services (“DHS”) and the Director of the California Department of Social Services (“DSS”), appeal from the district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction ordering them to screen members of a statewide class of foster children and, where medically necessary, provide the children with the forms of mental health care known as wraparound services and therapeutic foster care. The district court found that “the early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment services” (“EPSDT”) provisions of the Medicaid Act obligate the State of California (“State”) to provide wraparound services and therapeutic foster care to Medicaid-eligible children under 21, and that the State does not currently provide those forms of assistance, “as such.”

On appeal, defendants argue that the district court abused its discretion in granting a preliminary injunction against them and in denying their motion for reconsideration. Specifically, they contend that the court: (1) failed to make findings of fact and conclusions of law, as required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 52(a); (2) committed clear error in its factual findings; (3)…