Legal Opinion
Forbush v. Wallace
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided September 28, 1971No. Civ. A. 3394-NPublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiff brings this class action challenging the unwritten regulation of the Alabama Department of Public Safety which requires that each married female applicant use her husband’s surname in seeking and obtaining a driver’s license. The thrust of the complaint is that the refusal of the Department to issue plaintiff Forbush a driver’s license in her maiden name because she is married 1 is a denial of equal protection as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Also under attack is Alabama’s common law rule that the husband’s surname is the wife’s legal…
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