A federal appeals court has ruled that Maine did not run afoul of the Constitution by ending state-funded medical care for some legal aliens who are ineligible for Medicaid.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held Monday that the class action plaintiffs in Bruns v. Mayhew have not made a valid claim under the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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