Gardenia v. Norton

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

NEWMAN, District Judge.

This suit challenges on statutory and constitutional grounds the efforts of Connecticut’s Welfare Department to deter fraud and lessen the consequences of fraud on the state’s treasury. Plaintiffs have, launched a broad-based attack on the actions formerly taken by the defendant Commissioner of Welfare following the conviction for welfare fraud of a supervising relative receiving assistance under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children [AFDC] program. Plaintiffs originally complained that the automatic termination of AFDC benefits — or any…