RYAN v. SHEA

Nos. 74-1517, 75-1095.

525 F.2d 268 (1975)

Joanne D. RYAN et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Con F. SHEA, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Social Services, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided October 30, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Jeffrey, Colorado Rural Legal Services, and John R. Holland, Southwest Valley Legal Services, Denver, Colo. (Jon S. Nicholls and Tucker K. Trautman, Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Denver, Carolyn Lievers, East Denver Legal Services, and Betty L. Nordwind, Arapahoe County Legal Services, Denver, Colo., on the briefs), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Harry R. Silver, Atty., Dept. of Justice (Carla A. Hills, Asst. Atty. Gen., James L. Treece, U. S. Atty., Robert E. Kopp and David M. Cohen, Attys., Dept. of Justice, on the briefs), for defendants-appellants.

Before HILL, SETH and McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

This is a class action brought on behalf of individuals who began receiving Aid to the Needy Disabled benefits from the State of Colorado after July 1973, and were thereafter determined to be ineligible for benefits under the federal Supplemental Security Income program which supplanted Colorado's program for the needy disabled in January 1974. The district court entered a preliminary injunction which, among other things, enjoined the federal...

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