JEFFRIES v. SUGARMAN

Nos. 342, 343, 344, Dockets 72-2039, 72-2041, 72-2043.

481 F.2d 414 (1973)

Fannie JEFFRIES, Individually and on behalf of all persons similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellee-Appellant, Maxine Handel et al., Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Jule SUGARMAN, as Commissioner of the Department of Social Services of the City of New York et al., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 29, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen P. Seligman, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., of the State of New York; Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), for State Dept. of Social Services.

Norman Redlich, Corp. Counsel, City of New York, New York City, for defendant-appellant-appellee, Sugarman.

John J. S. Mead, County Atty., of Westchester County, for defendant-appellant-appellee, Kurtis.

Toby Golick, New York City (Jonathan A. Weiss, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee-appellant.

Norman B. Lichtenstein, White Plains, N.Y. (The Legal Aid Society of Westchester County, Martin A. Schwartz and John T. Hand, White Plains, N.Y., on the brief), for intervenors-plaintiffs-appellees.

Harlington Wood, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Civil Div.; Morton Hollander, Chief, App. Section, U. S. Dept. of Justice, filing briefs for Depts. of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare as amici curiae.

Before MOORE, FEINBERG and MULLIGAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The Commissioners of the New York City, Westchester County, and New York State Departments of Social Services appeal from an order of Judge Charles H. Tenney rendered in a class action suit brought by plaintiff Fannie Jefferies under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Mrs. Jefferies, the mother of a minor child, was employed until September 1969 as a typist. At that time she left her job and...

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