ADAMS CO. ET AL. v. DEPT. OF PUB. WELFARE ET AL.

No. 2116 C.D. 1980.

68 Pa.Commw. 249 (1982)

Adams County et al., Petitioners v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare et al., Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

August 11, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore A. Adler, with him Ronald G. Lench and David W. Reager, Widoff, Reager, Selkowitz and Adler, for petitioners.

Robert B. Hoffman, Deputy Attorney General, with him Allen C. Warshaw, Deputy Attorney General, Mary Frances Grabowski, Assistant Counsel, and LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General, for respondents.

Argued June 3, 1981, before President Judge CRUMLISH, JR. and Judges ROGERS, BLATT, MacPHAIL and PALLADINO. Reargued February 2, 1982, before President Judge CRUMLISH, JR. and Judges ROGERS, BLATT, WILLIAMS, JR., CRAIG, MacPHAIL and DOYLE.


OPINION BY JUDGE BLATT, August 11, 1982:

Pennsylvania's sixty-seven counties have brought this action, addressed to our original jurisdiction,1 against the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) and its Secretary, Helen B. O'Bannon (collectively, respondents) requesting that the respondents be enjoined from reducing Commonwealth reimbursements to the petitioners for the fiscal year 1980 for child welfare services. The petitioners also challenge...

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