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WA v. DPW OF COMMONWEALTH

No. 50 MAP 2016.

188 A.3d 1135 (2018)

Billie WASHINGTON, Tina Smith, Opal Gibson, Pennsylvania Mental Health Consumers' Association, Mental Health Association in Pennsylvania, Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, The Philadelphia Alliance, Drug and Alcohol Service Providers Organization of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Community Providers Association, Success Against All Odds v. The DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE OF the COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania Appeal of: Billie Washington, Tina Smith, Opal Gibson, Pennsylvania Mental Health Consumers' Association, Mental Health Association in Pennsylvania, Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, The Philadelphia Alliance, Drug and Alcohol Service Providers Organization of Pennsylvania, Success Against All Odds.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: July 18, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Ryan Froehlich , Richard P. Weishaupt , Community Legal Services, Robin Resnick , Disability Rights Network of PA, Philadelphia, PA, Joyce Collier , Collier Law, P.C., Flourtown, PA, Carol Anne Horowitz , Disability Rights Network of PA, Pittsburgh, PA, for Washington, Gibson, Smith, PA Mental Health Consumers' Assoc., Mental Health Assoc., et al, Appellant.

Kathleen Grogan , PA Department of Public Welfare, Doris M. Leisch , Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Matthew John McLees , Aramark Corporation, Harrisburg, PA, Jason William Manne , PA Department of Public Welfare, Pittsburgh, PA, for Department of Public Welfare, Appellee.

Donald Marritz , Community Justice Project, Gettysburg, PA, for Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition, et al, Amicus Curiae.

SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.

OPINION

This is a direct appeal from an order of the Commonwealth Court sustaining the demurrer of the Department of Public Welfare ("DPW") to a complaint filed by three disabled individuals who formerly received cash general assistance benefits from DPW, and seven organizations involved in the provision...

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