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BRYANT v. CARLESON

No. 26898.

444 F.2d 353 (1971)

Dorothy BRYANT, individually and on behalf of her four minor children, et al., Appellees, v. Robert CARLESON, as Director of the Department of Social Welfare of the State of California, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

May 27, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Palmer, Deputy Atty. Gen. (argued) Evelle J. Younger, Atty. Gen. of the State of California, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Peter E. Sitkin, San Francisco, Cal. (argued), Ralph Santiago Abascal, Marysville, Cal., Sidney M. Wolinsky, of San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, San Francisco, Cal., for appellees.

L. Patrick Gray, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Morton Hollander, Raymond D. Battocchi, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Joel Cohen, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Myron J. Berman, Deputy Asst. Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Health, Education & Welfare, Washington, D. C., Stephanie W. Naidoff, Asst. Regional Atty., Dept. of HEW, James L. Browning, Jr., U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for amicus curiae.

Before CHAMBERS and HAMLEY, Circuit Judges, and GOODWIN, District Judge.

HAMLEY, Circuit Judge:

On August 6, 1969, Dorothy Bryant, Mary Frierson, Beverly Young and Rosalie Boehme brought this class action against John C. Montgomery, the then Director of the Department of Social Welfare, State of California. Montgomery has since been succeeded by Robert Martin, and he, by Robert B. Carleson. Plaintiffs' purpose in bringing the action was to obtain declaratory and injunctive relief because, with respect to welfare aid to families with dependent...

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