Barannikova v. Town of Greenwich

In this appeal, the commissioner of the department of income maintenance (commissioner),1 Audrey Rowe, appeals from the trial court’s judgment setting aside the commissioner’s denial of general *666assistance benefits to the plaintiff, Nadejda Barannikova, on the ground that the statute2 and the implementing regulation3 on which the denial was based violated the plaintiffs right to the equal protection of the laws as guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution. The commissioner argues that the trial court improperly determined that the state statute and the regulation…