Case Name: In the Matter of South Nassau Communities Hospital, as Attorney in Fact for Concepcion Dominquez, Respondent, v. Joseph A. D'Elia, as Commissioner of the Nassau County Department of Social Services, Respondent, and Barbara Blum, as Acting Commissioner of the Department of Social Services of the State of New York, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1981-04-30
Citations: 53 N.Y.2d 827
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of South Nassau Communities Hospital, as Attorney in Fact for Concepcion Dominquez, Respondent, v Joseph A. D’Elia, as Commissioner of the Nassau County Department of Social Services, Respondent, and Barbara Blum, as Acting Commissioner of the Department of Social Services of the State of New York, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 53
Pages: 827–829

Head Matter:
In the Matter of South Nassau Communities Hospital, as Attorney in Fact for Concepcion Dominquez, Respondent, v Joseph A. D’Elia, as Commissioner of the Nassau County Department of Social Services, Respondent, and Barbara Blum, as Acting Commissioner of the Department of Social Services of the State of New York, Appellant.
Argued March 25, 1981;
decided April 30, 1981
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Judith A. Gordon and Shirley Adelson Siegel of counsel), for appellant.
Jeffrey Weingard, Roy Broudny, Neil N. Goldman and Aaron R. Cohn for petitioner-respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Order affirmed, with costs, for reasons stated in the opinion by Presiding Justice Milton Mollen at the Appellate Division (71 AD2d 110).
Concur: Chief Judge Cooke and Judges Jasen, Cabrielli, Jones, Wachtler and Fuchsberg. Taking no part: Judge Meyer.