Meltzer v. C. Buck LeCraw & Co.

Sup. Ct. Ga. Certiorari denied.

Mr. Justice Black.*

On March 2, 1971, this Court decided Boddie v. Connecticut, 401 U. S. 371, holding that Connecticut could not consistently with the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses deny access to its divorce courts to indigents unable to pay relatively small filing and service of process fees.1 We now have eight other cases pending on appeal or on petition for writ of certiorari in which indigents were denied access to civil courts because of their poverty.

One case, Sloatman v. Gibbons, No. 5067, is distinguishable from Boddie only by the fact that…