PARKS v. HARDEN

Nos. 73-1855 and 73-3220.

504 F.2d 861 (1974)

Ruth PARKS, Individually and for all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Richard HARDEN, Individually and as the Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources, Defendant-Appellee. Mrs. Alice L. HARRIS and Mrs. Mary E. Hood, Individually, on behalf of their unborn children, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE et al., etc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 4, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Gottlieb, Alfred C. Kammer, II, Jay E. Loeb, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant.

Dorothy Y. Kirkley, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Ga., Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., of Ga., Harold N. Hill, Jr., Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert J. Castellani, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for defendant-appellee.

A. F. Summer, Atty. Gen., William A. Allain, 1st Asst. Atty. Gen., Jack S. Parker, P. Roger Googe, Jr., Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellants.

Mark H. Shenfield, West Point, Miss., Stanley L. Taylor, No. Miss. Rural Legal Services, Oxford, Miss., Barry H. Powell, Community Legal Services, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before WISDOM, AINSWORTH and GEE, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 4, 1975.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

These two class actions involving federal-state aid to mothers of unborn children require this Court to consider for the first time issues litigated in a number of other federal courts during the past two years: Does the failure of a state to provide benefits to mothers of unborn children under the joint federal and state Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program contravene...

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