New Jersey Welfare Rights Organization v. William T. Cahill, in His Capacity as Governor and Chief Executive Officer of the State of New Jersey

OPINION OF THE COURT

Plaintiffs initiated this suit as a class action in the District Court for the District of New Jersey alleging, inter alia,, that the consolidated schedules of payments to New Jersey welfare recipients under the federally-funded Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program removed certain items from New Jersey’s standard of need in direct violation of 42 U.S.C. § 602(a) (23), as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Rosado v. Wyman, 397 U.S. 397, 90 S.Ct. 1207, 25 L.Ed.2d 442 (1970). They also aver that the New Jersey statute which created the wholly state-funded Aid to…