Legal Opinion
Donna M. Murillo v. W. Lewis Bambrick, Clerk of the Superior Court of New Jersey
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 17, 1982No. 81-1786PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, we are asked to review an order of the district court holding unconstitutional a New Jersey statute and court rule, both now repealed, that assessed higher filing fees in matrimonial actions than in other civil cases. Unlike the district court, we conclude that the Constitution of the United States was not violated by the State’s imposition of a “trial fee” upon individuals seeking divorces, but not upon other civil litigants. Whatever the wisdom of New Jersey’s legislation, in our view the classification at issue here neither…
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