Plaintiff brought a class action on

Plaintiff brought a class action on behalf of all
female welfare recipients residing in Connecticut and wishing divorces. She alleged that
members of the class were prevented from
bringing divorce suits by Connecticut statutes
that required payment of court fees and costs of
service of process as a condition precedent to
access to the courts. Plaintiff contended that
such statutes violate basic due process considerations. Is her argument valid?
Boddie v. Connecticut, 401 U.S. 371 (1970)
9. Like many other states, Connecticut requires
nonresidents of the state who are enrolled in
the state university system to pay tuition and
other fees at higher rates than residents of the
state who are so enrolled. A Connecticut statute defined as a nonresident any unmarried
student if his or her “legal address for any part
of the one-year period immediately prior to
[his or her] application for admission…was
outside of Connecticut,” or any married student if his or her “legal address at the time of
his application for admission…was outside of
Connecticut.” The statute also provided that
the “status of a student, as established at the
time of [his or her] application for admission…
shall be [his or her] status for the entire period
of his attendance.” Two University of Connecticut students who claimed to be residents
of Connecticut were by the statute classified as
nonresidents for tuition purposes. They
claimed that the Due Process Clause does not
permit Connecticut to deny an individual the
opportunity to present evidence that he or she
is a bona fide resident entitled to state rates and
that they were being deprived of property
without due process. Is this a valid argument?