Sherman v. Sanfilippo

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Broome County) to review a determination of the respondent Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, dated May 22, 1978, and made after a statutory fair hearing, which affirmed a determination of the respondent Commissioner of the Department of Social Services of Broome County, which denied petitioner’s application for medical assistance. Petitioner Sherman, a widow then 82 years old, was hospitalized in early June of 1976. She had been living…