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WOODS v. MILLER

Civ. A. No. 70-780.

318 F.Supp. 510 (1970)

Mary WOODS, individually and on behalf of her minor niece, Patricia Jones, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Stanley A. MILLER, Secretary of Welfare of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Edward Kalberer, Executive Director of the Allegheny County Board of Assistance, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.

September 23, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom M. Lytton, Neighborhood Legal Services, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Jacques H. Fox, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., William H. Eckert, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendants.

Before STALEY, Circuit Judge, and GOURLEY and WEIS, District Judges.

OPINION

STALEY, Circuit Judge.

This is a class action attacking the validity of two regulations of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare. These regulations provide for termination of welfare payments to recipients who refuse to initiate court action against the relatives obligated to support them under the Pennsylvania Support Law, 62 Purdon's Pa.Stat.Ann. § 1973.

The action was brought by Mary Woods individually and as next friend of...

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