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FOSTER v. CELANI

No. 809, Docket 87-6276.

849 F.2d 91 (1988)

Sandra FOSTER and Judith Girouard, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Veronica H. CELANI, as Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Social Welfare, Gretchen Morse, as Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Human Services, and Richard Lyng as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Defendants, Richard Lyng, the Secretary of Agriculture, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 24, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Kamenshine, Washington, D.C. (Robert S. Greenspan, Jeffrey Clair, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Steven Norman, Burlington, Vt. (Alexander Scherr, Vermont Legal Aid, Inc., Burlington, Vt., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Robert Abrams, New York City, Atty. Gen., State of New York (Lawrence S. Kahn, Deputy Sol. Gen., Robert J. Schack, Laurel W. Eisner, of counsel), for Amici State of New York and Cesar A. Perales, State Commissioner of Social Services.

Before PIERCE and PRATT, Circuit Judges, and WALKER, District Judge for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.

PER CURIAM:

The Secretary of Agriculture appeals from a summary judgment granted to a class of Vermont foster parents whose food stamp benefits had been reduced or terminated because their foster care maintenance payments were included in the calculation of their household income for the purpose of determining food stamp eligibility. The district court held that because foster children may be excluded from the household under...

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