AG Says DIR Complying With Lien Stay Injunction, Contempt Claim Lacks Merit

California’s top law enforcement official says the Department of Industrial Relations is in full compliance with the lien stay injunction handed down in December, and a federal judge should dismiss a motion seeking to hold the agency in contempt. Lien claimants in Vanguard Medical Management Billing et al. v. Christine Baker et al. are asking the U.S. District Court for Central California to rule that the automatic stay on liens filed by or on behalf of criminally charged providers is unconstitutional and filed a motion on March 15, accusing the DIR of creating a new proce...