The Court found that the payments violated the Constitutional requirement that Congress must first appropriate the payments.

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The question is whether Section 1402 can nonetheless be funded through the same, permanent Appropriation. It cannot.

Paying out Section 1402 reimbursements without an appropriation thus violates the Constitution.

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https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2014cv1967-73