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Morris Vs Weinberger - Citation 103340 - Court Judgment | LegalCrystal
Save as PDF Add a Tag Add a Note Semantics Visualize Morris Vs. Weinberger - Court Judgment	LegalCrystal Citationlegalcrystal.com/103340CourtUS Supreme CourtDecided OnFeb-22-1973Case Number410 U.S. 422AppellantMorrisRespondentWeinbergerExcerpt:.....§ 202(d)(8) of the social security act, 42 u.s.c. § 402(d)(8).
§ 111(a), social security amendments of 1972 (oct. 30, 1972), pub.l. 92-603, 86 stat. 1329. the writ of certiorari heretofore granted is dismissed as improvidently granted.
in this case, petitioner was denied social security benefits for his dependent adopted daughter because her court-approved adoption was not supervised by a child placement agency. as noted by the court, the section which barred his claim at the time that it was filed has now been repealed. [
] what the court does not deal with,
page 410 u. s. 423
however, is the patchwork nature of the relief that congress has provided.
section 111(b) of the new act [
Morris v. Weinberger - 410 U.S. 422 (1973)
Morris v. Weinberger, 410 U.S. 422 (1973)
Twenty days after this Court granted a writ of certiorari, 409 U.S. 841, Congress amended the relevant statutory provisions, § 202(d)(8) of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 402(d)(8).
] specifies the dates and circumstances to which § 111(a) [
] applies. As I read § 111(b), should petitioner qualify for increased benefits under § 111(a)'s new standards, he could now secure retroactive application of the revised Act to cover the entire period at issue in this case. It is true that § 111(a) no longer requires that court-authorized adoptions be supervised by a child-placement agency. Petitioner's lot is not, however, bettered, since § 111(a) now imposes a new requirement which petitioner cannot meet: that benefits may be paid to an adopted child only
Page 410 U. S. 424
if the child was living with the beneficiary "for the year immediately before the month in which began the period of [compensable] disability. . . ." § 111(a)(8)(D)(ii) (II). Petitioner began receiving disability insurance benefits in July, 1957. His adopted daughter was not born until 1965, however, and petitioner will accordingly not benefit under the terms of § 111(a).