Pearl Jane Vanscoter Lori Arndt Doris Munroe Barbara Wilson, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Thompson, Acting Secretary, State of Washington, Department of Social and Health Services, Defendants- and Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Pearl Jane Vanscoter Lori Arndt Doris Munroe Barbara Wilson, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Richard Thompson, Acting Secretary, State of Washington, Department of Social and Health Services, and Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services

920 F.2d 1441 Pearl Jane VANSCOTER; Lori Arndt; Doris Munroe; Barbara Wilson, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, * Secretary of Health and Human Services; Richard Thompson, Acting Secretary, State of Washington, Department of Social and Health Services, Defendants- Appellants, and Louis W. Sullivan, * Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant. Pearl Jane VANSCOTER; Lori Arndt; Doris Munroe; Barbara Wilson, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Richard THOMPSON, Acting Secretary, State of Washington, Department of Social and Health Services, Defendant, and Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellant. Nos. 89-35151, 89-35292. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Jan. 9, 1990. Decided Dec. 5, 1990. Robert E. Keith, Office of Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C., and Daniel Radin, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Wash., for defendants-appellants. Thomas E. Ashton, Evergreen Legal Services, Bellingham, Wash.,…