Martinez

The City of Los Angeles Area Agency on Aging and the City and County of San Francisco, along with several other individual and organizational plaintiffs, (“the Cities”) brought this action challenging California’s formula for distributing funds under the Older Americans Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 3001 et seq. The district court entered an injunction prohibiting the State from using certain factors in its formula, requiring the State to add other factors, and approving a new formula. On appeal, we conclude that much of Cities’ complaint is moot, and that the remainder does not state a claim for which relief can be granted. We also conclude that the interve-nors’ complaints are moot. We therefore vacate the injunction and remand to the district court with instructions to dismiss the complaints. We also reverse the district court’s awards of attorney’s fees against the State.

BACKGROUND

The Older Americans Act (OAA) authorizes federal grants to fund state-created programs designed to help older individuals meet their daily needs. To receive these funds, a state must develop a plan delineating the types of programs it intends to create and the methods it will use to target particular groups…