Legal Opinion
Mourning v. Correctional Medical Services
New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
Decided April 25, 1997PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
KING, P.J.A.D.
I
This is an appeal from a denial of injunctive relief and grant of summary judgment in the State’s favor in a prisoner’s action challenging the New Jersey medical copayment statute. We reject appellant’s constitutional challenge to the statutory scheme and affirm primarily for the reasons given by Judge Carchman in his oral opinion of May 20,1996.
II
On November 1, 1995 the Legislature enacted L. 1995, c. 254, the prison inmate copayment statute (statute) codified as N.J.S.A. 30:7E-1 to -6, effective March 1,1996, to partially defray the…
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