Baumes v. Lavine

Petitioners Eleanor Baumes, Loretta Brown and Claudine Ravenna, recipients of public assistance in Albany County in the aid to dependent children category, bring this article 78 proceeding on behalf of themselves and on behalf of all others similarly situated, pursuant to CPLR 1005 (subd [a]), to establish as a matter of law that section 350-j of the Social Services Law, entitled "Emergency assistance to needy families with children”, is applicable to families receiving public assistance whose children are without essential furniture, particularly beds, resulting solely from the deterioration…