CHILD v. BEAME

No. 75 Civil 336.

412 F.Supp. 593 (1976)

George and Larry CHILD et al., Plaintiffs, v. Abraham BEAME, Individually and as Mayor of the City of New York et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

February 20, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcia Robinson Lowry, Peter Bienstock, Children's Rights Project New York Civil Liberties Union, New York City, for plaintiffs.

W. Bernard Richland, Corp. Counsel, New York City, for defendants Beame, Dumpson, Sugarman, Parry, Blum and Beine; James G. Greilsheimer, Litigating Asst. Corp. Counsel, Carmela Ackman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, New York City, of counsel.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., New York City, for defendants Shapiro and Lavine; Stanley L. Kantor, Harold Tompkins, Asst. Attys. Gen., New York City, of counsel.

Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York City, for or of counsel to defendants Francine, Barlow, Matthews, O'Neill, White, McCormack, Foster, Gaynor, Breen, Chillion, Howard, James, Chrysostom, Fogarty, Rutnik, McMahon, Trager, Meaney, Olivia, Harris, John and Santagata; Richard E. Nolan, Alfred E. Schretter, Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr., New York City of counsel.

Kenneth Harfenist, New York City, for defendant Paul.

Burns, Kennedy, Schilling & O'Shea, New York City, for defendant Ritter; Edmund J. Burns, New York City, of counsel.

Fox, Glynn & Melamed, New York City, for defendants Burbank, Stone and Wiener; John R. Horan, David J. Melamed, Joseph D. Becker, New York City, of counsel.

Bodell & Magovern, P. C., New York City, for defendants Hawthorne, DeMartino, Morrison, Trobe, Schneider, Kelly, Sheridan, Bennington, Paul and Quinn; Gerald E. Bodell, Leonard F. Manning, David H. Berman, New York City, of counsel.

Bernstein, Seawell, Kaplan & Block, & Weiner, New York City, for defendant Zucker; Frederick H. Block, New York City, of counsel.

Migdal, Tenney, Glass & Pollack, New York City, for defendant Bullard; Lester Migdal, New York City, of counsel.

Humes, Andrews, Botzow & Wagner, New York City, for defendants Gaskill and Winterrowd.

Milburn & Ackerman, New York City, for defendant Siewers.

Hale & Russell, New York City, for defendant Patrick.

Patrick M. Campbell, New City, N. Y., for defendant Murphy.

Satterlee & Stephens, New York City, for defendant Gutheil.

Bleakley, Platt, Schmidt & Fritz, New York City, for defendants Robinson and Daniels.


OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

This is a class action for declaratory and injunctive relief and damages pursuant to 42 U.S.C., sections 1983, 1985 and 1986, and 28 U.S.C., sections 2201 and 2202, to redress rights guaranteed by the First, Eighth, Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments and Title IV of the Social Security Act. Jurisdiction is grounded upon 28 U.S.C., sections 1331(a), 1343(3) and (4).

The action was commenced by five plaintiffs...

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