Cook v. Liddle

This is a CPLR article 78 proceeding by the petitioner to reverse a determination by the respondent Stephen Berger, Commissioner of the Department of Social Services of the State of New York, arrived at after a statutory fair hearing which affirmed on appeal a determination by the respondent William Liddle, Commissioner of the Department of Social Services of the County of Chemung, which held that the petitioner’s eligibility for medicaid was effective as of December 1, 1974 rather than as of November 1, 1974 as requested by the petitioner.

The petitioner’s wife had a child on November 28,…