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DOUCETTE v. IVES

Nos. 90-2229, 91-1017 and 91-1212.

947 F.2d 21 (1991)

Eva DOUCETTE, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. H. Rollin IVES, Commissioner of the Maine Department of Human Services, Defendant, Appellee, Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant, Appellant. Eva DOUCETTE, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. H. Rollin IVES, Commissioner of the Maine Department of Human Services, et al., Defendants, Appellees. Eva DOUCETTE, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. H. Rollin IVES, Commissioner of the Maine Department of Human Services, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 21, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah Ruth Kant, Appellate Staff, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, with whom Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Richard S. Cohen, U.S. Atty., Portland, Me., and Barbara Biddle, Appellate Staff, Civ. Div. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on briefs for Louis W. Sullivan.

James R. Crotteau, Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Inc., Machias, Me., for Eva Doucette, et al.

Christopher C. Leighton, Deputy Atty. Gen., with whom Michael E. Carpenter, Atty. Gen., and Thomas D. Warren, Deputy Atty. Gen., Augusta, Me., were on briefs for H. Rollin Ives.

Before CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and TORRES, District Judge.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

This consolidated appeal involves two interrelated Social Security Act programs designed to benefit certain poor families: the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, 42 U.S.C. §§ 601-610; and the Child Support Enforcement (CSE or "IV-D") program, 42 U.S.C. §§ 651-666. The plaintiff class challenges a Health and Human Services regulation governing the extent to which child support payments collected...

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