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UNITED LOW INCOME, INC. v. FISHER

No. 72-1138.

470 F.2d 1074 (1972)

UNITED LOW INCOME, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Dean FISHER, M.D., Individually and in his capacity as Commissioner of Health and Welfare for the State of Maine, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 29, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh Calkins, Portland, Me., with whom Susan Calkins and Robert Edmond Mittel, Portland, Me., were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Eugene W. Murray, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Ronald J. Cullenberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., was on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

The appellants1 in this class action have sought a declaratory judgment and an injunction restraining the Commissioner of the Maine State Department of Health and Welfare from terminating welfare (AFDC-U) and Medicaid benefits previously granted to families with unemployed fathers.

The State of Maine, in 1969, had elected to broaden its Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) Program so as to include provision...

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