Brooks v. Center Township

KILEY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, Ernest Brooks, as representative of a class, filed this civil rights action alleging that defendants unconstitutionally terminated plaintiffs’ rent and food assistance.- On motion of defendants the district court dismissed the complaint.1 Brooks alone has appealed.2 We reverse.

The complaint was filed on June 3, 1971. The relief sought was for a declaratory judgment that defendants’ practice of terminating benefits and dispensing poor relief violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, for an order restraining defendants from termination of assistance…