LASCARIS v. WYMAN


38 A.D.2d 163 (1972)

John L. Lascaris, as Commissioner of Social Services of Onondaga County, Respondent, v. George K. Wyman, Individually and as Commissioner of Social Services of the State of New York, Appellant. Charles Bugnacki et al., Intervenors-Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Fourth Department.

January 20, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Sidney L. Grossman, Ruth Kessler Toch and Harvey R. Lasner of counsel), for appellant.

Blitman & King (Bernard T. King of counsel), for intervenors-appellants.

Philip Pinsky (Leonard C. Koldin of counsel), for respondent.

Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Schuller & James (Carmen Putrino of counsel), for Communication Workers of America, amicus curiae.

Bond, Schoeneck & King for Chamber of Commerce of United States, amicus curiae.

MARSH, J. P., WITMER, MOULE and HENRY, JJ., concur.


CARDAMONE, J.

We are asked to review a determination made at Special Term that denied strikers the right to receive welfare benefits. We believe that determination should be reversed because the law so provides. Welfare assistance will only be granted to those strikers who are in need; and in the absence of a very lengthy strike, welfare benefits will generally be needed only during the first seven weeks of a...

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