Legal Opinion
New Jersey Welfare Rights Organization v. Cahill
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided October 4, 1972No. Civ. A. 879-71PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CLARKSON S. FISHER, District Judge.
This is a class action brought by the New Jersey Welfare Rights Organization and others seeking to have segments of the New Jersey Law N.J.S. 44:13-1, entitled “Assistance to Families of the Working Poor” (AFWP), declared unconstitutional. It is part of a broader action in which plaintiffs additionally attack certain other revisions of New Jersey’s Welfare law on statutory grounds. Both the AFWP and the other revisions which are the subject of this action went into effect on July 1, 1971. The suit was first filed on June 15, 1971. and was dismissed by…
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