MATTER OF MANN v. LAVINE


40 N.Y.2d 944 (1976)

In the Matter of Lorraine Mann et al., Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children and All Other Persons Similarly Situated, Respondents, v. Abe Lavine, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, Appellant, and Noah Weinberg, as Commissioner of the Rockland County Department of Social Services, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 18, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Harold Henry, Samuel A. Hirshowitz and Herbert J. Wallenstein of counsel), for appellant.

Alton L. Abramowitz for petitioners-respondents.

Dorothy P. Loeb-Gumper for Noah Weinberg, respondent.

Concur: Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and COOKE.


Judgment affirmed, without costs, on the memorandum at the Appellate Division (49 A.D.2d 879). In affirming the court observes that time and expense of appellate litigation would have been easily obviated by a change in the department...

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