Grant v. Cuomo’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Inherent in plaintiffs claim of entitlement to such preventive services is the implication that the statute imposes a nondiscretionary duty on the part of social service officials to make the statutorily required finding under certain described circumstances. Such reasoning has already been rejected by this Court inasmuch as such professional evaluation as to the existence of a circumstance requiring child preventive services cannot reasonably be construed as ministerial or nondiscretionary. Any “entitlement” sought to be enforced depends upon the decisions of social services professionals and does not even come into existence until the discretionary determination as to what is appropriate has been made.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. County of Suffolk · 961 F. Supp. 2d 475 - Jones v. Nickens