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FIELDS v. BLUM

No. 1262, Docket 80-7234.

629 F.2d 825 (1980)

Phillip FIELDS and Tracy Williams, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Barbara BLUM, as Commissioner of the State of New York Department of Social Services, Defendant-Appellant, and Stanley Brezenoff, as Commissioner of the City of New York Department of Social Services, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 25, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ian F. Feldman, The Legal Aid Soc., New York City (David Goldfarb, Stuart Miller, John E. Kirklin, Director of Litigation Civil Appeals & Law Reform Unit, The Legal Aid Soc., New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Marion R. Buchbinder, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of New York, George D. Zuckerman, Asst. Sol. Gen., New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Before LUMBARD and MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges, and MEHRTENS, District Judge.

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

The Commissioner of New York's Department of Social Services appeals from a preliminary injunction entered by the District Court for the Southern District, Motley, J., prohibiting the Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York from reducing the welfare benefits of Phillip Fields and Tracy Williams, and those of their families. Fields and Williams are the named plaintiffs in a class action for a declaratory judgment seeking...

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