GOTCHES v. HECKLER

No. 84-1748.

773 F.2d 108 (1985)

Penelope GOTCHES, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health & Human Services, and Earl Oliver, C.J. Chamberlain, and Robert A. Gielow, Officials of the Railroad Retirement Board, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 30, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory McHugh, Prairie State Legal Services, Rock Island, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Gail C. Ginsberg, Asst. U.S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Before POSNER and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge.


DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge.

The inadvertent inhumanity towards the indigent which inheres in institutionalized and bureaucratized income transfer is illustrated by the case at bar.

Because appellee Penelope Gotches was enjoying the benefit of benefits under both the Railroad Retirement Act (45 U.S.C. § 231 et seq.) and the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 401 et seq.), the practice "most approved and in use"1...

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