CASWELL v. CALIFANO

No. 77-1514.

583 F.2d 9 (1978)

Leonard CASWELL et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Joseph A. CALIFANO, Jr., etc., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 16, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Verrell L. Dethloff, Jr., Atty. Social Security Div., Dept. of HEW, Baltimore, Md., with whom Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., George J. Mitchell, U. S. Atty., Portland, Maine, and Randolph W. Gaines, Chief of Litigation, Baltimore, Md., were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

John Whitehouse Cobb, Boulder, Colo., for plaintiffs, appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from one of a growing number of successful court challenges to the delays which attend the scheduling by the Social Security Administration (SSA) of administrative hearings afforded to applicants for disability benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act. 42 U.S.C. §§ 401 et seq.1 The United States District Court for the District of Maine, in an opinion reported at...

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