273 N.J. Super. 135 - Rinier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
April 2002
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Craig v. Boren · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co.
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“Plaintiffs argue that the strict scrutiny test should be employed because married persons are a suspect class. We disagree. Government regulations affecting marriage are not subject to strict scrutiny simply because the right to marry is a fundamental right. The government may impose a reasonable regulation on marriages so long as the regulation does not significantly interfere with decisions to marry. Only where the regulation presents a `direct' obstacle to marriage will the court apply a strict scrutiny standard. Here, the challenged provisions of the New Jersey tax place `no direct legal obstacle in the path of persons desiring to get married.' At most, the provisions impose an indirect burden suffered not from marrying, but `from marrying one in a particular income group.' And, while the burden may, to some extent, affect the choice whether to marry, it leaves the ultimate choice to the individual. [ Rinier, 273 N.J.Super. at 141-42 , 641 A. 2d 276 (citations omitted).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“placed no direct legal obstacle in the path of persons desiring to get married, and... there was no evidence that the laws significantly discouraged, let alone made `practically impossible,' any marriages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“equal protection safeguard is offended `only if the classification rests on grounds wholly irrelevant to the achievement of the State's objective.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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