(December 10, 2018, 9:36 AM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Dec. 6 affirmed a lower federal court’s dismissal of nursing homes’ lawsuit alleging that the secretaries of Maryland’s Department of Human Services and Department of Health wrongfully denied 11 of their residents Medicaid benefits in violation of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and other federal statutes, finding that the 11th Amendment bars the constitutional and Medicaid Act claims (Wicomico Nursing Home, et al. v. Lourdes R. Padilla, et al., No. 17-1972, 4th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 34382)....