TORRES v. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

No. 70 Civ. 2408.

321 F.Supp. 432 (1971)

Roberto TORRES and Walter Dinger, Plaintiffs, v. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR and Martin P. Catherwood, Industrial Commissioner, Defendants, United States of America, Intervenor-Defendant.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

Decided January 7, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis R. Yeager, New York City (Douglas D. Broadwater, Emilio P. Gautier, Paul G. Chevigny, Jonathan Weiss, Christopher H. Clancy, George Cooper, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs.

Brenda Soloff, Asst. Atty. Gen. of New York (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), for New York State Department of Labor and Martin P. Catherwood.

Daniel Riesel, Asst. U. S. Atty., S. D. New York (Whitney North Seymour, Jr., U. S. Atty., S. D. New York, Joseph D. Danas, Asst. U. S. Atty., Louise F. Freeman, H. A. Kelly, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Labor, Robert N. Ford, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, on the brief), for intervenor-defendant United States.

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen. of N. C., and Ralph Moody, Deputy Atty. Gen., submitted a brief amicus curiae for North Carolina.

Before HAYS, Circuit Judge, McLEAN and LASKER, District Judges.


HAYS, Circuit Judge:

The complaint in this action alleges the deprivation of rights secured to the plaintiffs by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and by parts of the Social Security Act of 1935, 42 U.S.C. § 501 et seq. (1964). Plaintiffs seek a declaratory judgment pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2201 (1964) declaring N.Y. Labor Law §§ 597, 598 and 620 (McKinney 1965) to be in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Social...

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