LOPEZ v. HECKLER

Civ. No. 83-0697-WPG(T).

572 F.Supp. 26 (1983)

Mario LOPEZ, et al., as individuals; People First of California, Inc., et al., as organizations; on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and John A. Svahn, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Defendants.

United States District Court, C.D. California.

June 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lewis K. Wise, Brian G. Kennedy, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Stephen S. Trott, U.S. Atty., Howard Gest, Asst. U.S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants.

Dan Stormer, Mary S. Burdick, Alan Rader, Western Center on Law & Poverty, Inc., Elena H. Ackel, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Byron Gross, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Ellen Finkelberg, Louis Finkelberg, Frankel & Finkelberg, Los Angeles, Cal., James S. Carroll, Lew Hollman, Bruce Iwasaki, San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc., Pacoima, Cal., Neal S. Dudovitz, Sally Hart Wilson, Gill Deford, Peter Komlos-Hrobsky, National Senior Citizens Law Center, Marilyn Holle, Protection and Advocacy, Inc., Daniel Brzovic, Western Law Center for the Handicapped, Los Angeles, Cal., Edward Ober, Community Legal Services, Phoenix, Ariz., Richard Donaldson, Las Vegas, Nev., James Preis, Barbara Bennett, Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc., Los Angeles, Cal., Martin Wegbreit, Client Centered Legal Services of South West Virginia, Castlewood, Va., Roberta Lindberg, Lane County Legal Aid Service, Inc., Eugene, Or., for plaintiffs.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

WILLIAM P. GRAY, District Judge.

This is a proposed class action against the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, challenging procedures used in terminating Social Security disability benefits.1 The plaintiffs are twenty assertedly disabled individuals and fourteen organizations, the former bringing suit on behalf of themselves and those similarly...

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