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CLASS v. NORTON

No. 138, Docket 74-1702.

505 F.2d 123 (1974)

Elena CLASS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Nicholas NORTON et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 10, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund C. Walsh, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert K. Killian, Atty. Gen., State of Conn., Hartford, Conn.), for defendants-appellants.

James C. Sturdevant, Tolland-Windham Legal Assistance, Inc., Rockville, Conn., Marilyn Katz, Fairfield County Legal Services, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Armand Derfner, Charleston, S. C. (Epstein & McClain, Charleston, S. C.), J. Harold Flannery, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D. C., and Martha G. Bannerman, New York City, on the brief for Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, as amicus curiae.

Before SMITH, TIMBERS and GURFEIN, Circuit Judges.

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Nicholas Norton, Commissioner of Welfare for Connecticut, appeals from the ruling on a motion for contempt rendered by then Chief Judge M. Joseph Blumenfeld of the District of Connecticut on March 22, 1974. 376 F.Supp. 496. The court declined to hold appellant in contempt for his alleged failure to comply with orders entered in 1972 calling for timely processing of applications for welfare assistance...

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