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DIXON v. HECKLER

No. 83 Civ. 7001(MEL).

589 F.Supp. 1512 (1984)

David DIXON, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, and Dominga Carrasquillo, Ophelia Casey, Ricardo Ramirez, Helen Spires and Joanne Lockett, Proposed Plaintiff-Intervenors, and The State of New York and Cesar Perales, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, Proposed Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

June 22, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Kirklin, Director of Litigation, David Goldfarb, Arthur J. Fried, Conrad A. Johnson, The Legal Aid Society, New York City, for plaintiffs and individual proposed intervenors; Nancy Morawetz, Civ. Appeals and Law Reform Unit, Jon Dubin, Ian Feldman, Stephen J. Loffredo, The Legal Aid Society, New York City, of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., New York City, for proposed plaintiff intervenors The State of N.Y. and Cesar Perales; Melvyn R. Leventhal, First Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Paul A. Glickman, Mary Fisher Bernet, Asst. Attys. Gen., New York City, of counsel.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, U.S. Atty., S.D. N.Y., New York City, for defendant; Susan E. Harkins, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City, Tamar Klein, Asst. Regional Atty., Dept. of Health and Human Services, Brooklyn, N.Y., of counsel.

LASKER, District Judge.

This memorandum addresses motions to intervene by Dominga Carrasquillo, Ophelia Casey, Ricardo Ramirez, Joanne Lockett, Helen Spires, the State of New York, and Cesar Perales, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services. The subject of this action, a challenge to the legality of the standards by which claims for disability benefits are evaluated, is described in a separate opinion

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