Legal Opinion
Lubin v. Panish
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 26, 1974No. 71-6852PublishedCited by 527 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted certiorari to consider petitioner’s claim that the California statute requiring payment of a filing fee of $701.60 in order to be placed on the ballot in the primary election for nomination to the position of County Supervisor, while providing no alternative means of access to the ballot, deprived him, as an indigent person unable to pay the fee, and others similarly situated, of the equal protection guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment and rights of expression and association guaranteed by the First Amendment.
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