DHS withdraws demand for bond – Suel Prevails

DHS withdraws demand for bond – Suel Prevails

August 16, 2013, the day after Judge Denise Owens issued Preliminary Injunction halting the implementation of the for-profit Xerox Corporation’s e-Childcare™ finger scan method of payment, MDHS attorney Doug Miracle requested an emergency hearing to request a $1,600,000.00 security bond be put up by Deloris Suel to cover the costs of damages to DHS and Xerox should it be found that the Preliminary Injunction was wrongly applied.

Although the Court was on a scheduled ten-day break, Judge Owens returned to the Court for such a hearing on August 27, 2013 in Hinds County Chancery Court.

After a brief time in Chambers, the parties emerged to enter the matter into the Court Record.

Child Care Attorney Lisa Ross had successfully argued that her client won Preliminary Injunction after a two-day trial and presentation of the evidence.

DHS withdrew its demand for a security bond.

Although Judge Owens had been using the time afforded by the Court’s scheduled ten-day break to develop her final order in Suel vs. MDHS, she offered to expedite her work to provide a final order by the end of the work week which will include clarification as to whether or not DHS may continue with its implemented phone e-Childcare™ for in-home care and the voluntary finger scan pilot program so as to prevent DHS’s stated concern for expected disruption in reimbursement payments to those affected providers.

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