Boddie v. Connecticut

Boddie v. Connecticut
Boddie v. Connecticut
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 8, 1969; Reargued November 17, 1970; Decided March 2, 1971
Full case name	Boddie, et al. v. Connecticut, et al.
Citations	401 U.S. 371 (more) 91 S. Ct. 780; 28 L. Ed. 2d 113; 1971 U.S. LEXIS 73
Case history
Prior	286 F. Supp. 968 (D. Conn. 1968) (reversed)
Holding
	Due process prohibits a state from denying, solely because of inability to pay, access to its courts to individuals who sought judicial dissolution of their marriages.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas; John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr.; Potter Stewart · Byron White; Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun
Case opinions
Majority	Harlan, joined by Burger, Stewart, Marshall, White, Blackmun
Concurrence	Douglas
Concurrence	Brennan
Dissent	Black
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. Amend. XIV

Boddie v. Connecticut, 401 U.S. 371 (1971), was a case before the United States Supreme Court.

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