Collins ex rel. Collins v. Barry

MILBURN, Circuit Judge.

In these consolidated appeals, defendants-appellants Patricia Barry, Director of the Ohio Department of Human Services (“Director”), and Otis Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services (“Secretary”), appeal the orders of the district courts granting preliminary and permanent injunctions and holding that the policies of the defendants implementing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (“AFDC”) program family filing unit provision of the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 (“DEFRA”) are violative of federal law. For the reasons that follow, we reverse the judgments of…