VANSCOTER v. SULLIVAN

Nos. 89-35151, 89-35292.

920 F.2d 1441 (1990)

Pearl Jane VANSCOTER; Lori Arndt; Doris Munroe; Barbara Wilson, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Richard Thompson, Acting Secretary, State of Washington, Department of Social and Health Services, Defendants-Appellants, and Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant. Pearl Jane VANSCOTER; Lori Arndt; Doris Munroe; Barbara Wilson, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Richard THOMPSON, Acting Secretary, State of Washington, Department of Social and Health Services, Defendant, and Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 5, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Keith, Office of Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C., and Daniel Radin, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Wash., for defendants-appellants.

Thomas E. Ashton, Evergreen Legal Services, Bellingham, Wash., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before KOELSCH, BROWNING and BEEZER, Circuit Judges.


JAMES R. BROWNING, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs represent a class of recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) under Title IV-A of the Social Security Act, on whose behalf the state collects child support payments. Defendant Sullivan is the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (the federal Secretary); defendant Thompson is the Secretary of the Washington Department of Social and Health Services (the state Secretary...

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