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BOWEN v. HACKETT

Civ. A. Nos. 5038, 5043.

361 F.Supp. 854 (1973)

Mary BOWEN, Individually, as mother and next friend of Mark Bowen, a minor, and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Mary C. HACKETT, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Employment Security. Sharon FERRI, Individually, as mother and next friend of Mark Ferri, a minor, and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Mary C. HACKETT, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Employment Security.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

July 13, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth F. MacIver, Jr., John M. Roney of R. I. Legal Services, Inc., Providence, R. I., for plaintiffs.

W. Slater Allen, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Providence, R. I., Louis Baruch Rubinstein and Charles H. McLaughlin, R. I. Dept. of Employment Security, Providence, R. I., for defendant.

OPINION

PETTINE, Chief Judge.

Disparities between the treatment of women and of men with regard to dependent's allowances under the Rhode Island unemployment compensation and temporary disability insurance laws are challenged here. Seeking equality of the sexes under the law, plaintiffs originally asked that the offending sections of the Rhode Island laws be declared unconstitutional and in violation of certain provisions of the Social Security Act, 42 U...

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