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McCOY v. BERGLAND

No. 80-CV-165.

519 F.Supp. 796 (1981)

Mary Lou McCOY; Kay Ralston; Valerie Carey; Denise E. Rowley; Catherine Wood; Deborah Hutchings; and Diane Kleine; individually and on behalf of their respective food stamp households, Plaintiffs, v. Bob BERGLAND, as Secretary of Agriculture; Barbara B. Blum, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services; Robert Wagner, as Commissioner of the Tompkins County Department of Social Services; and David A. Adinolfi, as Commissioner of the Cortland County Department of Social Services, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. New York.

August 6, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Onondaga Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc., Cortland, N. Y., for the plaintiffs; James T. Murphy, Cortland, N. Y., of counsel.

Strom, Masson & Fuller, Cornell Legal Aid, Ithaca, N. Y., for plaintiff McCoy; Barry Strom, Ithaca, N. Y., of counsel.

Chemung County Neighborhood Legal Services, Ithaca, N. Y., for plaintiffs Ralston and Carey; Paul Bernett, Gregg Thomas, Ithaca, N. Y., of counsel.

Alice Daniel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant Bergland; Lewis K. Wise, Brian G. Kennedy, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

George H. Lowe, U. S. Atty., N. D. N. Y., Syracuse, N. Y., for defendant Bergland; Paula Ryan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Syracuse, N. Y., of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., Dept. of Law, Albany, N. Y., for defendant Blum; David A. Dietrich, Asst. Atty. Gen., David Roberts, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N. Y., Jane B. Schneider, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N. Y., of counsel.

Robert I. Williamson, Tompkins County Atty., Ithaca, N. Y., for defendant Wagner; Rochelle Q. Alexander, Ithaca, N. Y., of counsel.

Donald W. Yager, Jr., Cortland, N. Y., for defendant Adinolfi.

MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDER

MUNSON, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs are recipients of benefits under the Food Stamp Act of 1977, 7 U.S.C. § 2013 et seq., and under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children [AFDC] Act, 42 U.S.C. § 601 et seq. Their AFDC grants included monies for the benefit of the plaintiffs' unborn children. They have commenced this action for restitution and for declaratory and injunctive relief, raising the question...

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