Blunt administration a frequent target of lawsuits

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Sun, Dec. 18, 2005

Blunt administration a frequent target of lawsuits
DAVID A. LIEB
Associated Press

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - There are no official statistics on such things. But when it comes to attracting lawsuits, Gov. Matt Blunt may setting the standard for future Missouri governors.

Nearing the end of his first year in office, Blunt's policies and laws already have been challenged by 12 lawsuits - an average of one a month, or almost two a month when you consider that nearly all of those lawsuits were filed in the last half of the year.

The lawsuits allege numerous constitutional violations, the overstepping of powers, the denial of justice, the infringement on personal rights. The plaintiffs now number in the hundreds. And the battles are being waged before judges in both state and federal courts.
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Two have challenged cuts to the state's Medicaid health care program for the poor that were proposed and signed into law by Blunt. Another challenges cuts to state adoption subsidies that were contained in that same Medicaid legislation.
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