Williams v. Department of Human Services

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

O’HERN, J.

This case, like Franklin v. New Jersey Department of Human Services, 111 N.J. 1 (1988), concerns the validity of a regulation of the defendant agency that sets a five-month expiration period for a certain form of emergency assistance *105for public assistance recipients threatened with homelessness. The Appellate Division aptly described the action as involving “the efforts of destitute, sick and disabled homeless citizens to compel the State, through the Department of Human Services (DHS), to grant them, in their plight, continued assistance in…