Court Opinion

ID: 9481156
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:10:13.229218+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:48:08.309228
License: Public Domain

VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in this case with great reluctance and wish that I could do otherwise. It seems unconscionable to me that this seventy-four year old widow who lived with Joseph Thomas for forty-seven years and bore ten of his children is now to be branded an adulteress, with whatever ramifications to her and her children that may result from this adjudication. See Grey v. Heckler, 721 F.2d 41, 49 (2d Cir.1983) (Van Graafeiland, J., dissenting). However, we must apply the law as Congress wrote it, not as we would like to have had it written.