Soto v. Director of the Michigan Department of Social Services

Plaintiff appeals as of right a final order of the circuit court which affirmed a decision of a Michigan Department of Social Services administrative law judge. This decision, in turn, had held that plaintiff’s initial application for Aid to Dependent Children (ADC), MCLA 400.56; MSA 16.456, was correctly denied on the basis that plaintiff was not a resident of Michigan at the time of application.

Plaintiff is a Mexican-American farm worker who apparently came to Michigan from Texas with his wife and three of his four minor children in June of 1974. Plaintiff had come to Michigan to secure…