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MASS. COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS v. SEC. OF HUMAN SER.

400 Mass. 806 (1987)

511 N.E.2d 603

MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS & others vs. SECRETARY OF HUMAN SERVICES & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 18, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Reed Witherby, Assistant Attorney General, for Secretary of Human Services & another.

Barbara Sard (Lucy A. Williams, Marjorie Heins, Karen Slaney, & Belle Soloway with her) for the plaintiffs.

Scott P. Lewis & Rebecca P. McIntyre, for The Massachusetts Council of Churches & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Gene K. Landy, for Massachusetts Committee for Children and Youth, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

In December, 1985, the plaintiffs filed a complaint seeking declaratory and injunctive relief as to the failure of the Massachusetts program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) to pay benefits sufficient to enable parents to raise their children in their own homes.

The plaintiffs sought a declaration that then current AFDC payments did not reflect the level of needed AFDC assistance which, they contend, the Commissioner of Public...

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