ROTHSTEIN v. WYMAN

No. 812, Docket 72-1359.

467 F.2d 226 (1972)

Edna ROTHSTEIN et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. George K. WYMAN, as Commissioner of the Department of Social Services of the State of New York, and the Department of Social Services of the State of New York, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 7, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. James Spitzer, Jr., New York City (Leonard S. Clark, Nassau County Law Services Committee, Westbury, N.Y., Norman B. Lichtenstein, The Legal Aid Society of Westchester County, White Plains, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Amy Juviler, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Before FRIENDLY, Chief Judge, and McGOWAN and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges.


McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:

The challenge to the decree of the District Court presently before us relates only the remedial provisions of that decree which direct the retroactive payment of public assistance benefits in respect of certain periods in 1969. The welfare programs in question entail the use of both state funds and federal grants. Looking to the statutory scheme which embodies that cooperative approach, we conclude that it was not an appropriate exercise of...

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