Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit January 16, 1978, No. 1152, Docket 77-7101 (Winters v. Lavine)

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:

This civil rights case brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 emanates from the State of New York’s allegedly wrongful and unconstitutional denial of plaintiff-appellant Miriam Winters’ requests that the state, through its Medicaid program, New York Social Services Law §§ 363-69 (hereinafter “N.Y. Soc. Serv.