Robert C. Rhodes v. Louis D. Laurino, Queens County Surrogate, and Dorothy M. Dooley, Director, Adoption Department, New York Foundling Hospital

This appeal, pro se, is from a judgment denying a declaration of unconstitutionality of Section 114 of the New York Domestic Relations Law 1 on its face and as applied. Appellant is an adult adoptee seeking to obtain the medical history of his natural parents and their forebears. Judgment dismissing his complaint was granted by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Mark A. Costan-tino, Judge. Rhodes v. Laurino, 444 F.Supp. 170 (E.D.N.Y.1978). We have upheld the statute against a broadbased attack on its facial validity in Alma Society v. Mellon, 601 F.2d 1225,…