SIMMONS v. COHEN ET AL.

No. 2229 C.D. 1985.

122 Pa.Commw. 70 (1988)

551 A.2d 1124

Henry Simmons, Executor of the Estate of Ethel H. Holloway Simmons, Petitioner v. Walter Cohen et al., Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

December 13, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Mulligan, for petitioner.

Kate L. Mershimer, Deputy Attorney General, with her, John G. Knorr, III, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Chief, Litigation Section, and LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General, for respondents.

Argued September 12, 1988, before Judges CRAIG and PALLADINO, and Senior Judge NARICK, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, December 13, 1988:

Simmons v. Cohen, 111 Pa.Commw. 267, 534 A.2d 140 (1987), recites much of the history of this case, which is a class action brought against the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW) to require DPW to reimburse welfare recipients for legal expenses incurred by them in recovering Supplemental Security Income (SSI) awards from the federal...

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