Spencer v. Spencer

OPINION OF THE COURT

GORDON, Chief Judge.

This three-judge court was convened to consider the claims of Richard E. Spencer that his constitutional rights were violated by the implementation of the North Carolina privy examination statute. 1 The plaintiff contends that he was denied the equal protection of the law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution inasmuch as the privy examination statute provided his wife with a private examination by a judicial officer to determine that the separation agreement entered into between the plaintiff and his wife was not…