New Jersey Welfare Rights Org. v. Cahill

Supreme Court of the United States

411 U.S. 619

New Jersey Welfare Rights Organization et al.  v.  Cahill, Governor of New Jersey, et al.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

No. 72-6258.  Argued: N/A --- Decided: May 7, 1973

Statute limiting benefits of the "Assistance to Families of the Working Poor" program to those households in which the parents are ceremonially married and have at least one minor child of both, the natural child of one and adopted by the other, or a child adopted by both, denies equal protection to illegitimate children.

349 F.Supp. 491, reversed.


PER CURIAM.

This article is issued from Wikisource. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.