Legal Opinion
Diane Drysdale v. Thomas Spirito
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 14, 1982No. 82-1218PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs, appellees in this case, are a class of dependent children who receive welfare payments under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. Social Security Act §§ 401-410, 42 U.S.C. §§ 601-610. Each plaintiff has a “caretaker parent” (often, but not always, the plaintiff’s mother) who is not herself in need of welfare and who also has some earned income. Because the caretaker parent is not needy, each plaintiff is a victim of what he believes is an anomaly in the way the amount of his AFDC grant is calculated: If his caretaker parent were herself…
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3Cited by25 opinions
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