DOE v. SHARP

Civ. A. No. 77-1682-Z.

491 F.Supp. 346 (1980)

Jane DOE, on behalf of herself, her minor child, and all others similarly situated v. Alexander SHARP, II, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare and Joseph A. Califano, Secretary, United States Department of Health, Education & Welfare.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

May 19, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Richard McIntosh, Legal Service for Cape Cod and Island, Inc., John A. Gresham, Hyannis, Mass., Ernest Winsor, Mass. Law Reform Institute, Michael Avery, Boston, Mass., for plaintiff.

Richard D. Glovsky, Asst. U. S. Atty., Boston, Mass., for HEW.

Thomas Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., for Sharp.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

ZOBEL, District Judge.

Plaintiff is a former recipient of assistance from the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare (DPW) under Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC), 42 U.S.C. §§ 601, et seq., whose benefits were terminated in 1977 because of her refusal to supply DPW with the social security number (SSN) of her seven-year old daughter, also a grantee-recipient of benefits paid to plaintiff. Plaintiff...

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