CITY OF NEW YORK v. HECKLER

No. 1095, Docket 84-6037.

742 F.2d 729 (1984)

CITY OF NEW YORK, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., State of New York, Cesar Perales, Commissioner, N.Y.S. Dept. of Social Services, William F. Morris, Acting Commissioner, N.Y.S. Office of Mental Health, Jane Does I and II, Richard Does I, II, III & IV, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, John A. Svahn, Commissioner of U.S. Social Security Administration, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 27, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard S. Scher, Atty., Appellate Staff, Civ.Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Richard K. Willard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., William Kanter, Atty., Appellate Staff, Civ.Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Raymond J. Dearie, U.S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., on the brief), for defendants-appellants.

Thomas W. Bergdall, New York City (Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., Corp. Counsel, Lois M. May, New York City, Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., Paul M. Glickman, Howard L. Zwickel, New York City, Ambrose Doskow, Richard L. Claman, Jan G. Zager, Rosenman Colin Freund Lewis & Cohen, New York City, Leonard Rubenstein, Mental Health Law Project, Washington, D.C., Jane Stevens, Brooklyn Legal Services, Brooklyn, N.Y., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before LUMBARD, NEWMAN and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

The Secretary of Health and Human Services appeals from a judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Jack B. Weinstein, Chief Judge) invalidating a procedure used by the Social Security Administration ("SSA") in the determination of original and continuing eligibility of claimants for disability benefits. City of New York v. Heckler, 578 F.Supp. 1109 (E.D.N.Y.1984...

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