United States Second Circuit

Social security benefits may be suspended only as of the date of a warrant or order issued by a court or other authorized tribunal on the basis of a finding that an individual has fled or was fleeing from justice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/07/2005
• Published 12/07/2005

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge., Before:  STRAUB and RAGGI, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge .

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gerald A. McIntyre, National Senior Citizens Law Center (Roberta L. Mueller, on the brief), Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Rochelle Bobroff, AARP Foundation Litigation (Stuart Cohen, AARP Foundation Litigation;  Michael Schuster, AARP, on the brief), Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae AARP in support of Plaintiff-Appellant., Catherine M. Callery, Greater Upstate Law Project, Inc., Rochester, NY;  Louise M. Tarantino, Greater Upstate Law Project, Inc., Albany, N.Y. (Barbara Samuels, Legal Services for New York City, New York, NY;  William Leinhard, Urban Justice Center, New York, NY;  Joanne Lewis, Connecticut Legal Services, Middletown, CT;  Charlotte Fischman, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, NY;  Greg Bass, Greater Hartford Legal Aid, Inc., Hartford, CT, Maryann Zavez, South Royalton Legal Clinic at Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT;  Shelley White, New Haven Legal Assistance Assoc., New Haven, CT, on the brief), for Amici Curiae GULP, et al., in support of Plaintiff-Appellant's request for reversal of the District Court's decision.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dennis J. Canning, Assistant Regional Counsel, Social Security Administration (Lisa De Soto, General Counsel, Barbara L. Spivak, Chief Counsel, Region II, Social Security Administration;  Joseph A. Pavone, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Albany, NY, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.