JENKINS v. MASSINGA

Civ. A. No. M-83-4134.

592 F.Supp. 480 (1984)

Sharyn JENKINS; Wilhemenia Dorsey; Sandra L. Smith; Jacqueline E. Iaquinta; and Susan Timmerman Fagans Tepel Daugherty, for Themselves and, as Next Friends, for Their Minor Children, and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. Ruth W. MASSINGA, in her Official Capacity as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Resources; Ann C. Helton, in her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Maryland Child Enforcement Administration; Prince George's County, Maryland; Robert W. McCarthy, Jr., in his Official Capacity as Administrator of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Maryland; and the Circuit Court For Prince George's County, in its Administrative Capacity, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

August 3, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine P. Ransel, Nancy C. Crisman, Center for Law in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C., C. Christopher Brown, Baltimore, Md., and Donna Lenhoff, Women's Legal Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Md., Dennis M. Sweeney, James G. Klair and Joseph B. Spillman, Asst. Attys. Gen., Baltimore, Md., for defendants Ruth W. Massinga, Ann C. Helton, Robert W. McCarthy, Jr., and the Circuit Court for Prince George's County.

Thomas P. Smith, County Atty., Michael O. Connaughton and Carl A. Harris, Deputy County Attys., and Robert H. Drummer, Associate County Atty., Upper Marlboro, Md., for defendant Prince George's County, Md.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JAMES R. MILLER, Jr., District Judge.

Four plaintiffs, Jenkins, Dorsey, Smith and Iaquinta, on behalf of themselves, their children, and all others similarly situated, filed a class action in this court on December 2, 1983, alleging that the defendants, Ruth W. Massinga, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Resources; Ann C. Helton, Executive Director of the Maryland Child Support Enforcement Administration [State defendants...

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