Bryant v. Carleson

444 F.2d 353 Dorothy BRYANT, individually and on behalf of her four minor children, et al., Appellees, v. Robert CARLESON, as Director of the Department of Social Welfare of the Stateof California, Appellant. No. 26898. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. May 27, 1971. Elizabety Palmer, Deputy Atty. Gen. (argued) Evelle J. Younger, Atty. Gen. of the State of California, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant. Peter E. Sitkin, San Francisco, Cal. (argued), Ralph Santiago Abascal, Marysville, Cal., Sidney M. Wolinsky, of San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, San Francisco, Cal., for appellees. L. Patrick Gray, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Morton Hollander, Raymond D. Battocchi, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Joel Cohen, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Myron J. Berman, Deputy Asst. Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Health, Education & Welfare, Washington, D.C., Stephanie W. Naidoff, Asst. Regional Atty., Dept. of HEW, James L. Browning, Jr., U.S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for amicus curiae. Before CHAMBERS and HAMLEY, Circuit Judges, and GOODWIN, District judge. * HAMLEY, Circuit Judge: 1 On August 6, 1969, Dorothy Bryant, Mary Frierson, Beverly Young and Rosalie…