Legal Opinion
Frances K. Grow v. Sidney E. Smith, Individually and in His Capacity as Secretary of the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 26, 1975No. 73--1228PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
Appellants are parents of dependent children who have been denied or terminated from public assistance under Washington welfare regulations for failure to provide information on absent parents or assist in support or filiation proceedings. They sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for injunctive relief and damages, alleging that Washington’s welfare regulations requiring such information and participation in such support proceedings were inconsistent with federal statutory requirements and in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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