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SANCHEZ v. MAHER

No. 871, Docket 76-7539.

560 F.2d 1105 (1977)

Andriana SANCHEZ et al., and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Edward MAHER et al., Commissioner of the Department of Social Services of the State of Connecticut, Defendants-Appellants, United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 2, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Angel Bello Billini, Alice Bussiere, New Haven Legal Assistance Association, New Haven, Conn., and Oscar Garcia-Riviera, Richard J. Hiller, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., New York City, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen. of Conn., Francis J. MacGregor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn., for appellant.

J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frank D. Allen, Jr., Judith E. Wolf, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for Federal defendants-appellees.

Before OAKES, Circuit Judge, WYZANSKI and HOLDEN, District Judges.

HOLDEN, District Judge:

On April 18, 1973, certain Spanish-speaking recipients of public assistance programs in Connecticut filed a class action complaint alleging discrimination by the Connecticut Welfare Department (CWD), (now the Department of Social Services) and its Commissioner in providing certain services to them on an unequal basis with English-speaking recipients. The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) was joined as a defendant in the action...

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