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COFFIN v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE

Civ. A. No. 1890-73.

400 F.Supp. 953 (1975)

Edgar D. COFFIN, Plaintiff, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Columbia, Civil Division.

On Motion for Reconsideration August 8, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ruth B. Ginsburg, New York City, Hope Eastman, Susan Hewman, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Thomas G. Corcoran, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Barry M. Katz, Dept. of Justice, U. S. District Court, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

Before MacKINNON, Circuit Judge, and GASCH and SMITH, District Judges.

OPINION

I. THE CLAIM.

Plaintiff Edgar D. Coffin seeks to assert a class-action challenge to the constitutionality of two sections of the Social Security Act.1 Specifically plaintiff attacks those portions of the Act which provide for the payment of "husband's insurance benefits"2 and "widower's insurance benefits."3

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