Hester Maggett v. Nicholas Norton

GURFEIN, Circuit Judge:

Appellees filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and its jurisdictional counterpart, 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3), asserting that the procedures used by the Connecticut State Welfare Department to redetermine appellees’ eligibility for benefits under the state’s Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program (AFDC) deprived appellees of procedural due process rights guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment. A single district judge conducted a hearing and thereafter held that the Department’s procedures were constitutionally inadequate, ordering appellant Commissioner to correct them.…