BUCHANAN v. ESSEX COUNTY WELFARE BD.


113 N.J. Super. 99 (1971)

272 A.2d 768

JOYCE BUCHANAN, JESSIE RAMSEUR, NANCY FULLER, ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, VIVIAN SIMMONS, BEATRICE GREEN, ETHEL BANKS AND MARION KIDD, ALL INDIVIDUALLY, ON BEHALF OF THEIR MINOR CHILDREN, AND ON BEHALF AF ALL SIMILARLY SITUATED PERSONS, PLAINTIFFS, v. ESSEX COUNTY WELFARE BOARD AND PHILIP K. LAZARO, DIRECTOR OF THE ESSEX COUNTY WELFARE DEPARTMENT, DEFENDANTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division.

Decided January 15, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Michael C. Parks, of the Newark-Essex Joint Law Reform Project, for plaintiffs.

Mr. Ronald Reichstein for defendants.


ANTELL, J.S.C. (temporarily assigned).

Defendant Essex County Welfare Board is a county agency charged with the responsibility for administering financial assistance and other services to needy dependent children and the parent or relative with whom they are living, under the federally-funded Aid to Families With Dependent Children program, hereinafter called AFDC. N.J.S.A. 44:10-2. Plaintiffs are recipients of welfare benefits under AFDC and sue as a class...

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