NATIONAL WELFARE RIGHTS ORGANIZATION et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
George K. WYMAN, individually and in his capacity as Commissioner of Social Services for the State of New York, and the Department of Social Services for the State of New York, Defendants.
United States District Court E. D. New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
April 23, 1969.
April 23, 1969.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Lee A. Albert, Henry A. Freedman, Sylvia Ann Law, Nancy Duff Levy, Robert P. Borsody, New York City, Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law.
Carl Rachlin, James Spitzer, David Draschler, General Counsel, New York City, National Welfare Rights Organization, Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund, Inc.
David Gilman, Gen. Counsel, New York City, City-Wide Coordinating Committee of Welfare Groups, MFY Legal Services Inc.
Cesar Perales, Brooklyn, N. Y., Williamsburg Legal Services, for Julia Rosado.
Virginia Schuler, Brooklyn, N. Y., Brownsville Legal Services, for Cathryn Folk and Eula Mae King.
Edward V. Sparer, Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., Harold J. Rothwax, David A. Diamond, Marianne J. Rosenfield, Eric Hirschhorn, New York City, MFY Legal Services Inc., Mort P. Cohen, Brooklyn, N. Y., South Brooklyn Legal Services, for Lydia Hernandez.
Morton Friedman, St. Albans, N. Y., for Annie Lou Phillips and Majorie Duffy.
Martin Garbus, New York City, Roger Baldwin Foundation of American Civil Liberties Union, Ronald Bevil, Bruce Ferguson, Jonathan Marsh, of counsel.
Burt Neuborne, New York City, New York Civil Liberties Union. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., of the State of New York, for defendants, Philip Weinberg, Amy Juviler, New York City, of counsel.
J. Lee Rankin, Corp. Counsel of City of New York, New York City, amicus curiae, Robert E. Hugh, Phyllis Roberts, New York City, of counsel.
Morris H. Schneider, County Atty. of Nassau County, Mineola, N. Y., amicus curiae, A. Thomas Levin, Mineola, N. Y., of counsel.
Vincent T. McCarthy, U. S. Atty., for Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, N. Y., amicus curiae, for Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Harold Stevens, New York City, of counsel.
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, New York City, amicus curiae, Philip Sokol, New York City, of counsel.
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, New York City, and Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Brooklyn, amici curiae, Dorothy J. Coyle, New York City, of counsel.
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, New York City, Louis Agin, amicus curiae, New York City, of counsel.
United States District Court E. D. New York.
MEMORANDUM ON STANDING AND NECESSARY PARTY
WEINSTEIN, District Judge.
This is a class action brought by ten recipients of welfare payments under the Aid to Families With Dependent Children Program (AFDC) and two organizations whose stated purpose is to promote the interests of persons on relief — the National Welfare Rights Organization and the Citywide Coordinating Committee of Welfare Organizations — to declare invalid and enjoin the implementation...
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