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MASSACHUSETTS ASS'N OF OLDER AMERICANS v. SHARP

No. 82-1592.

700 F.2d 749 (1983)

MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF OLDER AMERICANS, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Alexander SHARP, II, etc., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 15, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Suzanne Harris, Cambridge, Mass., with whom Steven A. Hitov, New Rochelle, N.Y., was on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Thomas Noonan, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Hyde Park, Mass., Dept. of Public Welfare, with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., and E. Michael Sloman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., Government Bureau, were on brief, for defendant, appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, BOWNES and BREYER, Circuit Judges.

BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants are a subclass consisting of approximately 4,400 families with stepchildren whose Medicaid and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) has been terminated as a result of the stepparent liability provision recently added to the AFDC program. 42 U.S.C. § 602(a)(31) (as amended). Defendant-appellee is the Commissioner of the Department of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plaintiffs appeal from...

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