medically fragile children

U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks looks set to order Florida to remove 140 children from nursing homes in Broward and Pinellas counties.

The high court decided to let stand a decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of the U.S. Department of Justice in a nearly decade-long legal battle.

The families of four Florida children with special health-care needs have filed a challenge to a new state process that removed them from a program…