Legal Opinion
Fields v. Blum
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 25, 1980No. 1262, Docket 80-7234PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:
The Commissioner of New York’s Department of Social Services appeals from a preliminary injunction entered by the District Court for the Southern District, Motley, J., prohibiting the Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York from reducing the welfare benefits of Phillip Fields and Tracy Williams, and those of their families. Fields and Williams are the named plaintiffs in a class action for a declaratory judgment seeking to end the State’s practice of allowing administrative appeals in welfare cases to be decided by a designee of the Commissioner who has…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights OrganizationSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by4 opinions
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