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BROOKS v. CENTER TOWNSHIP

No. 72-1921.

485 F.2d 383 (1973)

Ernest BROOKS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CENTER TOWNSHIP, a municipality incorporated in Marion County, Indiana, and Benjamin A. Osborne, Center Township Trustee and Overseer of the Poor in Center Township, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 3, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Manning, Louis F. Rosenberg, Indianapolis, Ind., for plaintiff-appellant.

Ernest P. Schnippel, Indianapolis, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before CLARK, Associate Justice, KILEY, Circuit Judge, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.

KILEY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, Ernest Brooks, as representative of a class, filed this civil rights action alleging that defendants unconstitutionally terminated plaintiffs' rent and food assistance. On motion of defendants the district court dismissed the complaint.1 Brooks alone has appealed.2 We reverse.

The complaint was filed on June 3, 1971. The relief sought was for a declaratory judgment that...

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