NEW JERSEY WELFARE RIGHTS ORGANIZATION v. CAHILL

Civ. A. No. 879-71.

349 F.Supp. 491 (1972)

NEW JERSEY WELFARE RIGHTS ORGANIZATION et al., Plaintiffs, v. William T. CAHILL, in his capacity as Governor and Chief Executive Officer of the State of New Jersey, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

October 4, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Parks, East Orange, N. J., Gerard J. Clark, for plaintiffs.

George F. Kugler, Jr., Atty. Gen. of N. J., by Stephen Skillman, Deputy Atty. Gen., for defendants.

Before GIBBONS, Circuit Judge, and WHIPPLE and FISHER, District Judges.


OPINION

CLARKSON S. FISHER, District Judge.

This is a class action brought by the New Jersey Welfare Rights Organization and others seeking to have segments of the New Jersey Law N.J.S. 44:13-1, entitled "Assistance to Families of the Working Poor" (AFWP), declared unconstitutional. It is part of a broader action in which plaintiffs additionally attack certain other revisions of New Jersey's Welfare law on statutory grounds. Both the AFWP and the other revisions...

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