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SWEENEY v. STATE BOARD OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

No. 381 Civil.

36 F.Supp. 171 (1940)

SWEENEY et al. v. STATE BOARD OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.

District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.

December 31, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Sweeney, of Nanticoke, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Joseph F. Tedesco, of Scranton, Pa., for defendant.

Kathleen Meehan, County Supervisor, and Archie W. Johnston, Sr. County Supervisor, both of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and James Brindle, Director of Assistance State Department of Public Assistance, of Harrisburg, Pa., appearing with counsel for defendant at pretrial conference.

JOHNSON, District Judge.

I. History of the Case.

Plaintiffs filed their complaint alleging that they have been illegally denied general assistance under the Pennsylvania Public Assistance Law, 1937 Pa.P.L. 2051, 62 P.S.Pa. § 2501 et seq. Their specific complaint is that their personal liberty guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States is infringed by a regulation of the Department of Public Assistance. This regulation...

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