MARYLAND DEPT. OF HUMAN RESOURCES v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. M-86-605.

648 F.Supp. 1017 (1986)

MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES and Ruth Massinga, Secretary v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES and Otis R. Bowen, Secretary. October BRITT, Mary Jacobs, and Dorothy Oldaker, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Cross-Plaintiffs, v. Otis R. BOWEN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Cross-Defendants. MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, et al. v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, et al.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

As Amended May 20, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Nancy B. Shuger and Mark J. Davis, Asst. Attys. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, Md., for State plaintiffs.

Peter M.D. Martin, Rochelle Gordon, Marian McKennan, and Seri Wilpone, and Legal Aid Bureau, Inc., Baltimore, Md., for cross-plaintiffs.

Breckinridge L. Willcox, U.S. Atty. for Maryland, Larry D. Adams, Asst. U.S. Atty., Donald A. Gonya, Chief Counsel for Social Sec., Randolph W. Gaines, Deputy Chief Counsel for Social Sec. Litigation, John B. Watson, Chief, Assce. Payments Litigation Branch, and Karen Cornick-Dandridge, Office of General Counsel Social Sec. Div., Dept. of Health and Human Services, Baltimore, Md., for defendants and cross-defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JAMES R. MILLER, Jr., District Judge.

This case began as separate actions. On February 21, 1986, individual plaintiffs October Britt, Mary Jacobs, and Dorothy Oldaker filed a class action suit against Otis R. Bowen, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Ruth Massinga, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Resources. The individual plaintiffs are welfare mothers who assert that a new...

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