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CALIFANO v. BOLES

No. 78-808.

443 U.S. 282 (1979)

99 S.Ct. 2767

61 L.Ed.2d 541

CALIFANO, SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE v. BOLES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 27, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harriet S. Shapiro argued the cause for appellant. With her on the briefs were Solicitor General McCree, Assistant Attorney General Babcock, William Kanter, and Susan A. Ehrlich.

Herbert Semmel argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief was Nancy Duff Campbell.

MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court.

Since the Depression of the 1930's the Government has taken increasingly upon itself the task of insulating the economy at large and the individual from the buffeting of economic fortune. The federal old-age, survivors, and disability insurance provisions of the Social Security Act (SSA) are possibly the pre-eminent examples: attempts to obviate, through a program of forced savings, the economic dislocations...

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