WISDOM v. NORTON

No. 1058, Docket 74-1402.

507 F.2d 750 (1974)

Barbara WISDOM et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Nicholas NORTON, Commissioner of Welfare, State of Connecticut and Vincent B. Capuano, Director of Eligibility Services of the Connecticut State Welfare Department, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 11, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis J. MacGregor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn. (Robert K. Killian, Atty. Gen., for the State of Conn., Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Marilyn Kaplan Katz, Bridgeport, Conn. (Bridgeport Legal Services, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn., and Diane Schneiderman, New Haven Legal Assistance Ass'n, New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before MOORE and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges, and WEINFELD, District Judge.


EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge:

This appeal presents the question whether an unborn child is eligible for assistance under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children ("AFDC") provisions of Title IV of the Social Security Act of 1935, as amended,1 and if so, whether the policy of the State of Connecticut of denying such assistance to the unborn child and its pregnant mother is in conflict with the Act and thus invalid under the Supremacy...

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