ROSELLI v. AFFLECK

No. 74-1084.

508 F.2d 1277 (1974)

Roseanna ROSELLI et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. John J. AFFLECK, Individually and in his capacity as Director of the Rhode Island Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 31, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Slater Allen, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Richard J. Israel, Atty. Gen., was on brief, for appellant.

Jay C. Lipner, Providence, R. I., with whom John M. Roney and Kenneth F. MacIver, Jr., Providence, R. I., were on brief, for appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE, Circuit Judge, and MOORE, Senior Circuit Judge.


McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

Defendant, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services, takes this interlocutory appeal from the issuance of a preliminary injunction precluding him from implementing the state's new flat grant welfare program to the extent it supplants the state's former method of welfare payments for the purchase of shelter. We affirm.

As a condition of participation in the federal AFDC program, states must tailor...

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