ACOSTA v. SWANK

No. 69 C 2502.

325 F.Supp. 1157 (1971)

Ignacio ACOSTA, Virginia Bowers, Bernice Robinson and Dovie Thurman, individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Harold O. SWANK, Director, Illinois Department of Public Aid, David Daniel, Director, Cook County Department of Public Aid, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

March 30, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheldon Roodman, Community Legal Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen. of Ill., and John Galvin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., Edward V. Hanrahan, State's Atty., Cook County, and Thomas Brannigan, Asst. State's Atty., Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

William J. Bauer, U. S. Atty., for U. S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, amicus curiae.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PERRY, District Judge.

This case is before this single-judge court pursuant to an order, 318 F.Supp. 1348, entered on October 22, 1970 by a three-judge court constituted by Kiley, Circuit Judge, and Perry and Napoli, District Judges. In said order the three-judge court withdrew its opinion, 312 F.Supp. 765, heretofore entered on May 11, 1970 and found...

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