Aliens denied equal access to health benefits: Mass. Supreme Court

In Finch v. Commonwealth Health Insurance the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court voided a statute denying access to `Romneycare' by legal aliens in the U.S. less than five years.  The Court found that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment barred the cost-saving limitation.  Perhaps 30,000 people were deprived of health care access by the measure.
Northeastern Law School Prof. Wendy Parmet represented the plaintiffs.  Northeastern is today's People's Electric Law School, as we used to call Rugers-Newark.  Kevin Johnson at Immigration Prof Blog has the story.