San Lazaro Association, Inc., Dba Biomedical Laboratory v. Kathleen Connell, Controller of the State of California, Oganes Nagapetyan Khachik Simonyan v. Kathleen Connell, Controller of the State of California Joseph Munso, Chief Deputy Director of the California Department of Health Services, Clinical Care Laboratory, Inc. v. Kathleen Connell, Controller of the State of California S. Kimberly Belshe, Director of the Department of Health Services

286 F.3d 1088 SAN LAZARO ASSOCIATION, INC., dba Biomedical Laboratory, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kathleen CONNELL, Controller of the State of California, Defendant-Appellant. Oganes Nagapetyan; Khachik Simonyan, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Kathleen Connell, Controller of the State of California; Joseph Munso, Chief Deputy Director of the California Department of Health Services, Defendants-Appellants. Clinical Care Laboratory, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kathleen Connell, Controller of the State of California; S. Kimberly Belshe, Director of the Department of Health Services, Defendants-Appellants. No. 00-55065. No. 00-55610. No. 00-55377. No. 00-55963. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted July 10, 2001. Filed January 24, 2002. Amended April 17, 2002. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Sandra L. Goldsmith, Deputy Attorney General of the State of California, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellants. Patric Hooper, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees. Robert D. Kamenshine, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for amicus United States Department of Health and Human Services, in…