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MATTHEWS v. HARRIS

Civ. A. No. 79-4339.

495 F.Supp. 141 (1980)

Reverend William MATTHEWS, Plaintiff, v. Patricia R. HARRIS, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Defendant.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

July 17, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nell I. Lipscomb, Gwendolyn F. Bole, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Leonard P. Avery, Asst. U. S. Atty., for defendant.

ON DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DISMISS

CASSIBRY, District Judge.

The plaintiff is Reverend William Matthews, 93 years old. His wife died in 1970. Before the Supreme Court invalidated the "one-half support" requirement, plaintiff attempted to file applications for widower's benefits for several years. See 42 U.S.C. § 402(f) in general and § 402(f)(1)(D)(i) (1976). The people in the local Social Security office allegedly did not allow him to file...

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