TERMINI v. CALIFANO

No. 32, Docket 79-6068.

611 F.2d 367 (1979)

Samuel TERMINI, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joseph CALIFANO, Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and Barbara Blum, as Acting Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals. Second Circuit.

Decided November 21, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark H. Wattenberg, Olean, N. Y. (Southern Tier Legal Services, Olean, N. Y.), for plaintiff-appellee.

Alan W. Rubenstein, Albany, N. Y. (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, Clifford A. Royael, Albany, N. Y., on the brief), for defendants-appellants.

Legal Services for the Elderly Project of Erie County and Western New York, Inc. (Keith A. Morgenheim, Buffalo, N. Y., on the brief), submitted a brief as amicus curiae.

Before MULLIGAN, VAN GRAAFEILAND and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.


VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

Appellee Samuel Termini, an elderly man living with his two minor children, brought this lawsuit to challenge a determination of the Social Security Administration (SSA) classifying him under N.Y.Soc.Serv.Law § 209(3) as "living with others," rather than "living alone." The United States District Court for the Western District of New York reversed the SSA's determination, holding that...

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