{"id":13899,"date":"2016-06-25T01:26:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T08:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/judge-denies-attempt-to-prolong-medicaid-legislation\/"},"modified":"2016-06-25T01:26:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T08:26:08","slug":"judge-denies-attempt-to-prolong-medicaid-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/judge-denies-attempt-to-prolong-medicaid-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge denies attempt to prolong Medicaid legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE<\/strong> \u2014 A state judge has denied an attempt to prolong litigation challenging Gov. Bill Walker\u2019s authority to unilaterally expand Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday action stems from a lawsuit filed by the Alaska Legislative Council against Walker last summer. The case was dismissed by a state court judge in March.<\/p>\n<p>The Alaska House subsequently gave notice it planned to keep challenging Walker\u2019s authority for the expansion. In early May, attorneys representing the council filed a notice of appeal on behalf of the House and said they planned to seek an order substituting the House for the council in litigation.<\/p>\n<p>In Friday\u2019s ruling, Superior Court Judge Frank Pfiffner said the council had not presented any evidence that it transferred its interest to the House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 A state judge has denied an attempt to prolong litigation challenging Gov. Bill Walker\u2019s authority to unilaterally expand Medicaid. The Friday action stems from a lawsuit filed by the Alaska Legislative Council against Walker last summer. The case was dismissed by a state court judge in March. The Alaska House subsequently gave notice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13899"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}