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WHITE v. MATHEWS

No. 1127, Docket 77-6015.

559 F.2d 852 (1977)

George WHITE, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David MATHEWS, Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, as an Individual and in his official capacity, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 18, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Stout, Atty., Office of Gen. Counsel, Social Security Div., Baltimore, Maryland (Barbara Allen Babcock, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Peter C. Dorsey, U. S. Atty. for the District of Connecticut, New Haven, Conn., Randolph W. Gaines, Chief of Litigation, Dept. of HEW, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Raymond Richard Norko, Hartford, Conn. (Legal Aid Society of Hartford County; Robert P. Wenten, Litchfield Hills Legal Services; Donna J. Brooks, Legal Aid Society of Hartford County, Hartford, Conn., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Philip M. Gassel, New York City (Legal Services for the Elderly Poor, Toby Golick, Brooklyn, N. Y., Jane Greengold Stevens, New York City, John C. Gray, Jr., Brooklyn Legal Services, Corp. B., Brooklyn, N. Y., on the brief), amici in support of plaintiff-appellee.

Before FEINBERG and DANAHER, Circuit Judges, and DOOLING, District Judge.

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

The Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare appeals from a successful challenge by plaintiff George White to the glacial pace at which the Social Security Administration (SSA) has adjudicated claims to disability payments. The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, T. Emmet Clarie, Chief Judge, found the administrative delays in Connecticut unreasonable, and ordered reductions in those delays...

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