JEFFREY v. COLO. S. DEPT. OF SOC. SERV.

No. 28405.

599 P.2d 874 (1979)

Arthur JEFFREY, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross Appellees, v. COLORADO STATE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Henry A. Foley, Executive Director of the Colorado State Department of Social Services, Gilbert R. Slade, Ms. Margaret Marshall, Manuel M. Diaz, John H. Fowler, Thomas C. Hickman, Ms. Joanne Paterson, James A. Vincent, Ms. Florangel Mendez, and Chester Watson, as constituting the Colorado Board of Social Services; and Alfred L. Gillen, Executive Director of El Paso County Department of Social Services, their agents, employees, successors in office, assistants and all other persons acting in concert or cooperation with them or at their direction or under their control, Defendants-Appellees, Cross Appellants. Clifford SALTER, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross Appellees, v. The COLORADO STATE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Armando R. Atencio, individually and in his official capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado State Department of Social Services, Gilbert R. Slade, Ms. Margaret Marshall, Manuel L. Diaz, John H. Fowler, Thomas C. Hickman, Ms. Joanne Paterson, James A. Vincent, Ms. Florangel Mendez, and Chester Watson, individually and as constituting the Colorado Board of Social Services; and Eugene McKenna, individually and as Executive Director of Weld County Department of Social Services, their agents, and employees, successors in office, assistants and all other persons acting in concert or cooperation with them or at their direction or under their control, Defendants-Appellees, Cross Appellants.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied September 17, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Holland, Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Denver, Denver, Zane Pic, Colorado Rural Legal Services, Inc., Greeley, Charles Johnson, Pikes Peak Legal Services, Inc., Colorado Springs, Maurice Znaizer, Senior Citizens Law Center, Denver, Dudley P. Spiller, Jr., Colorado Coalition of Legal Service Programs, Denver, for plaintiffs-appellants, cross appellees.

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Edward G. Donovan, Sol. Gen., Henry L. Solano, Asst. Atty. Gen., Human Resources Section, Denver, for defendants-appellees, cross appellants.


LEE, Justice.

The plaintiffs-appellants appeal from the district court's judgment upholding the denial of old-age pension benefits by the Colorado State Department of Social Services. We reverse.

The appellants are all between the ages of sixty and sixty-five. Their applications for old-age pension benefits were denied solely on the ground that they had not resided in Colorado for a continuous period of thirty-five years immediately preceding application for...

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