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CASS COUNTY WELFARE DEPT. v. WITTNER

No. 51447.

309 N.W.2d 320 (1981)

CASS COUNTY WELFARE DEPARTMENT, Respondent, v. Melody WITTNER, Appellant, and Commissioner of Public Welfare, intervenor, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

August 21, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Rasmussen, Anishinabe Legal Services, Inc., Cass Lake, for appellant.

Michael T. Milligen, County Atty., Walker, for Cass County Welfare Dept.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen. and John Kirwin, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for respondent.

Thomas Berg, U. S. Atty. and Mary Egan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Minneapolis, for U. S. Dept. of Justice.

Randolph W. Gaines and Gwenda D. Jones, Baltimore, Md., for U. S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.

SIMONETT, Justice.

The Cass County District Court, sitting as a three-judge panel, vacated an order of the Commissioner of the Department of Public Welfare (Department) finding that Melody Wittner had "good cause" for refusing to cooperate with the Cass County Welfare Department (County Agency) in establishing the paternity of her child. We granted Ms. Wittner's petition for review to this court. We agree with the district court that the County Agency had standing...

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