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LIBERTY ALLIANCE OF THE BLIND v. CALIFANO

Nos. 77-1010 and 77-1011.

568 F.2d 333 (1977)

LIBERTY ALLIANCE OF THE BLIND, Lillian Carney, John Coleman, Oliver Ewell, Emma Jenkins, Lillian Luksa, Ernestine Lyons, Dennie McNeil, Maude and Benjamin Pratt and Caterine Sullivan, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Appellants in No. 77-1010, v. Joseph A. CALIFANO, Jr., Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Appellant in No. 77-1011, and Frank S. Beal, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 6, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda M. Bernstein, Community Legal Services, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants in 77-1010 and as cross-appellees in 77-1011.

Barbara L. Babcock, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., David W. Marston, U.S. Atty., Randolph W. Gaines, Chief of Litigation, Washington, D.C., Linda L. Cromwell, Dept. of Health, Ed. and Welfare, Baltimore, Md., for appellee in 77-1010 and as cross-appellant in 77-1011.

Before GIBBONS and WEIS, Circuit Judges, and MEANOR, District Judge.

OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, ten blind Pennsylvania recipients of Supplemental Security Income benefits and Liberty Alliance of the Blind (Liberty Alliance), an organization of blind persons dedicated to improving the economic and social status of the blind, appeal from a final decision of the District Court dismissing their case against the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and denying class action certification. The...

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