Nuckel v. Wyman

In an action brought to obtain a judgment declaring the recently enacted section 139-a of the Social Services Law unconstitutional and enjoining the defendants from implementing it, the plaintiffs seek a temporary injunction restraining the defendants from enforcing the statute in issue during the pendency of this action.

The challenged statute (L. 1969, ch. 184, § 8), which took effect on May 1, 1969, provides insofar as pertinent, that any person who applies for home relief or aid to dependent children within one year after arrival in this .State:1 ‘ shall be presumed to have come into the…