Brown v. Lavine

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered September 9, 1974 in Albany County, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to annul a determination of the State Commissioner of Social Services which denied, after a fair hearing, petitioner’s request for replacement in full of cash representing a portion of her public assistance grant that had been stolen.

As a recipient of aid under the State’s former program of Aid to the Aged, Blind and Disabled (repealed by L 1974, ch 1080), petitioner received and cashed her…