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QUINTANA v. CALIFANO

No. 78-1455.

623 F.2d 128 (1979)

Martha M. QUINTANA, and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Joseph A. CALIFANO, Jr., Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare of the United States of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided November 26, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anson B. Levitan and Timothy Meehan of Northern New Mexico Legal Services, Inc., Tacos, N. M., for plaintiffs-appellants.

R. E. Thompson, U.S. Atty., Albuquerque, N. M. (Ruth C. Streeter, Asst. U.S. Atty., Albuquerque, N. M., and Randolph W. Gaines and Verrell L. Dethloff, Dept. of Health, Ed. and Welfare, Baltimore, Md., of counsel, with him on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before SETH, Chief Judge, McKAY, Circuit Judge, and MATSCH, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

The question on this appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion in failing to make a determination on the plaintiff's claim for class certification before dismissing her complaint as moot.

By her complaint filed on October 5, 1977, the plaintiff claimed that there had been an unreasonable delay in making an initial determination on her application for benefits under the Supplemental Security Income Program, and included the following...

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