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JIGGETTS v. GRINKER

75 N.Y.2d 411 (1990)

Barbara Jiggetts et al., on Behalf of Themselves, Their Children, and All Others Similarly Situated, Appellants, v. William J. Grinker, as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services, et al., Defendants, and Cesar Perales, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 3, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew Diller, Kalman Finkel, Helaine M. Barnett, Jane E. Booth, Kathleen A. Masters, Christopher D. Lamb, Mary Zulack, Maxwell Gould and Marie-Elena Ruffo for appellants.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Clifford A. Royael, O. Peter Sherwood and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for Cesar Perales, respondent.

Thomas H. Moreland, Jeffrey S. Trachtman, Shirley Traylor and Juan Cartagena for Citizen's Committee for Children and others amici curiae.

Allan L. Gropper, Joan Morgan McGivern, Andrew P. Langhoff and Louis A. Craco for Project on the Homeless of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, amicus curiae.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA concur.

SIMONS, J.

Plaintiffs are recipients of public assistance in the form of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (ADC) residing in New York City whose shelter costs exceed the maximum allowance payable to them under the Department of Social Services schedules (see, 18 NYCRR 352.3). Defendants are the State and New York City Commissioners of Social Services, defendants Perales and Grinker, and plaintiffs...

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