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CORNELIUS v. HOGAN

No. 81-1197.

663 F.2d 330 (1981)

Cora CORNELIUS, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. William HOGAN, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 2, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith S. Yogman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for defendants, appellants.

Nancy Lorenz, Boston, Mass., with whom Barbara Sard, Roxbury, Mass., was on brief, for plaintiffs, appellees.

Before CAMPBELL, VAN DUSEN and BREYER, Circuit Judges.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from rulings of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts construing a consent decree to apply to certain services now provided by the Massachusetts Department of Social Services ("DSS"), and binding DSS and its commissioner to the decree. We affirm.

This case began in 1973 when a group of welfare recipients filed a complaint in federal court against the Commissioner of the Massachusetts...

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