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CRUZ v. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE

395 Mass. 107 (1985)

478 N.E.2d 1262

LUISA M. CRUZ vs. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

June 10, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jordan H.F. Fiore for the plaintiff.

Thomas A. Barnico, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commissioner of Public Welfare.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

O'CONNOR, J.

This appeal involves a challenge to a regulation of the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare that precludes certain nonimmigrant aliens from receiving medical assistance benefits (medicaid). The plaintiff, an alien who lawfully entered the country in 1972 on a visitor's visa and who has resided here continuously since then, applied for medicaid in 1982. The Department of Public Welfare (Department) denied...

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