RAU v. N.H. DIV. OF WELFARE

No. 7150

115 N.H. 156 (1975)

PATRICIA L. RAU & a. v. NEW HAMPSHIRE DIVISION OF WELFARE & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

March 31, 1975


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

New Hampshire Legal Assistance and H. Neil Berkson, Bruce E. Friedman and Barbara Sard (Mr. Berkson orally) for the plaintiffs.

Warren B. Rudman, attorney general, and Charles G. Cleaveland, assistant attorney general (Mr. Cleaveland orally), for the State.

Cleveland, Waters & Bass and Robert T. Clark (Mr. Clark orally) for the State Employees Association of New Hampshire, Inc., as intervenors.


PER CURIAM.

The issue in this case is whether the superior court has jurisdiction to hear and consider a petition to enjoin the division of welfare and its director from temporarily reassigning sixty-two social workers to nonsocial work duties. We hold that it does.

At the hearing on preliminary relief, the Superior Court (King, J.), not being satisfied it had jurisdiction to hear the cause, transferred the question of jurisdiction without ruling.<...

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