Legal Opinion
Murillo v. Bambrick
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided February 20, 1981No. Civ. A. 79-2345PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
STERN, District Judge.
Plaintiff Donna Murillo, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, brings this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging the constitutionality of a New Jersey law which required matrimonial litigants, and only matrimonial litigants, to pay a fifty- or sixty-dollar trial fee in addition to the filing fee required of all civil litigants. Plaintiff seeks a declaration that these laws, which were abolished by the New Jersey state legislature during the pendency of this suit, violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Donna M. Murillo v. W. Lewis Bambrick, Clerk of the Superior Court of New JerseyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1982
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- Donna M. Murillo v. W. Lewis Bambrick, Clerk of the Superior Court of New JerseyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1982
- Donna M. Murillo v. W. Lewis Bambrick, Clerk of the Superior Court of New JerseyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1982