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NATIONAL WELFARE RIGHTS ORGANIZATION v. FINCH

Nos. 23787, 23890.

429 F.2d 725 (1970)

The NATIONAL WELFARE RIGHTS ORGANIZATION et al., Appellants, v. The Honorable Robert FINCH, Secretary, United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, et al. NATIONAL WELFARE RIGHTS ORGANIZATION et al., Appellants, v. The Honorable Robert FINCH, Secretary, United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 9, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John W. Douglas, Washington, D. C., for appellants. Messrs. Roger L. Rice and Stephen Wexler and Mrs. Florence Roisman, Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellants.

Mr. Raymond D. Battocchi, Attorney, Department of Justice, with whom Messrs. Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., and Alan S. Rosenthal, Attorney, Department of Justice, were on the brief, for appellees. Mr. Nathan Dodell, Asst. U. S. Atty., also entered an appearance for appellees.

Mr. Norman K. Janes, Willimantic, Conn., William H. Clendenen, Jr., New Haven, Conn., filed a brief on behalf of Quinnipiac Welfare Rights Mothers, Farnum Courts Welfare Rights Mothers, Willimantic Welfare Rights Mothers, and Togetherness Is Everyone, as amici curiae.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WRIGHT and McGOWAN, Circuit Judges.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

In November 1969 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare announced that in December 1969 and January 1970 hearings would be held to determine whether the welfare laws of the states of Nevada and Connecticut respectively were in conformity with certain federal standards in the Social Security Act so that those states might continue to receive payments of federal aid for their state welfare assistance programs. Plaintiff-appellants...

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