Legal Opinion
Perez v. Lavine
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 22, 1974No. 73 Civ. 4577PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUMAN, District Judge.
Before the court is the latest in a continuing succession of challenges to the manner in which New York administers its welfare programs. The named plaintiffs are either applicants for or recipients. of public assistance 1 whose cases are assigned to the eleven welfare centers in the Bronx. Their complaint broadly attacks existing conditions at these facilities; it alleges that each of these centers now handles a volume of cases far in excess of its capacity, and that the resultant overcrowding serves to deprive them of the benefits and services which they are due.…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- United Mine Workers of America v. GibbsSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Goldberg v. KellySupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Hagans v. LavineSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroySupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. PattersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Wright v. CalifanoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1978
- Allen v. State of West Virginia Human Rights CommissionWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1984
- Cicero v. OlgiatiDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1976
- Shands v. TullCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1979
- Hospital Center at Orange v. GuhlNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 2000
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