Casey v. Lavine

By decision dated May 22, 1974 the respondent commissioner upheld an initial determination by the Broome County Department of Social Services denying medical assistance to the petitioner on the grounds that "the petitioner is not a resident of the State of New York and that the petitioner entered this State for the purpose of obtaining medical assistance and care”. The decision also implied that petitioner may not have been a resident of New York State under the Social Services Law because she had not lived here for one year, excluding the time spent as "a patient in a hospital or private…