HENRIETTA D., Henrietta S., Simone A., Ezzard S., John R., Pedro R., on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Michael R. BLOOMBERG, Mayor of the City of New York, Marva Hammons, Administrator of the New York City Human Resources Administration and Commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services, and Marva E. Glass, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, Defendants-Appellants.
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Argued: September 26, 2002.
Decided: June 9, 2003.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Susan J. Kohlmann (Karen B. Dine, David Oakland, Carolina A. Fornos, Heather Bridgid Conoboy, on the brief), Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, New York, New York; Victoria Neilson, HIV Law Project, New York, NY; Armen H. Merjian, Jennifer Sinton, Virginia Shubert, Housing Works, Inc., New York, New York, on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Edward F.X. Hart, Assistant Corporation Counsel (Leonard Koerner, Georgia M. Pestana, on the brief), for Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, New York, on behalf of Defendants-Appellants Rudolph Giuliani and Marva Hammons.
Vincent Leong, Assistant Attorney General (Michael S. Belohlavek, Deputy Solicitor General, Deon Nossel, Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, New York, on behalf of Defendant-Appellant Marva E. Glass.
Ralph F. Boyd, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Jessica Dunsany Silver, Seth M. Galanter, Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section—PHB, Washington, DC, on behalf of Amicus Curiae the United States.
Before: MESKILL, SACK, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
KATZMANN, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs in this civil rights litigation, indigent New York City residents who suffer from AIDS and other HIV-related illnesses, are clients of New York City's Division of AIDS Services and Income Support ("DASIS"), an agency whose sole function is to assist persons with HIV-related diseases in obtaining public assistance benefits and services. The plaintiffs allege that in spite of DASIS's existence (and in part due to DASIS's ineffectiveness...
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