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Welfare Law In California, Peter E. Sitkin
Welfare Law In California, Peter E. Sitkin
Cal Law Trends and Developments
In California, over 1,500,000 people are dependent on public assistance for all or part of their means of subsistence. To provide aid to these individuals, a large and complex bureaucracy has developed over the years that expends more than a billion dollars a year, and is governed by an evergrowing set of federal, state, and local rules and regulations. Notwithstanding the size of the bureaucracy and the complexity of the laws governing the system, until recently there had been few instances of judicial review of welfare practices or laws. With a few exceptions,4 the court decisions relating to welfare prior …
Crawford V. Gould: Federal Statute Gives Financial Boon To State Institutionalized Psychiatric Patients, Paul Webb
Golden Gate University Law Review
In Crawford v. Gould, the Ninth Circuit held that the State of California may not take Social Security benefits from a recipient without his or her consent. The court found that federal law preempted California's procedure of applying the Social Security benefits of unconsenting institutionalized patients to the cost of their care. With this decision, the Ninth Circuit ruled California's procedure invalid.