WILKERSON v. SULLIVAN

Civ. A. No. 84-2548.

727 F.Supp. 925 (1989)

William WILKERSON, Robert J. Gardner, William E. Smith, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

August 25, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean M. Beer, James M. Lafferty, Jonathan M. Stein, Community Legal Services, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Richard J. Stout, Asst. U.S. Atty., Michael Leonard, Asst. Regional Atty., Dept. of Health & Human Services, Philadelphia, Pa., Sheila Lieber, John R. Tyler, Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., Washington, D.C., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HANNUM, Senior District Judge.

This is a class action whereby the plaintiffs seek preliminary or permanent injunctive relief requiring the defendant ("the Secretary") to cease his purported policy of "nonacquiescence" and begin evaluating the claims of alcoholics for social security disability payments and supplemental security income payments under the standard announced and reaffirmed in Third Circuit case law. Plaintiffs also allege...

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