RHODES v. LAURINO

No. 77-C-437.

444 F.Supp. 170 (1978)

Robert C. RHODES, Plaintiff, v. Louis D. LAURINO, Queens County Surrogate, and Dorothy M. Dooley, Director, Adoption Department, New York Foundling Hospital, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. New York.

February 2, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Rhodes, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York by Marian B. Scheuer, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, for defendant Laurino.

Bodell & Magovern, P.C., New York City, for defendant Dooley.


MEMORANDUM and ORDER

COSTANTINO, District Judge.

This is an action, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and its jurisdictional counterpart, 28 U.S.C. § 1343, seeking (1) a declaration that Section 114 of the New York Domestic Relations Law is unconstitutional on its face and as applied, and (2) an injunction prohibiting the enforcement of that statute. Plaintiff claims that the statute violates his First, Fifth, Ninth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth...

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