P.O.P.S. v. GARDNER

No. 91-36118.

998 F.2d 764 (1993)

P.O.P.S., a Washington non-profit corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Booth GARDNER, Governor, State of Washington; Richard Thompson, Secretary, Washington Department of Social & Health Services; Washington State Office of Support Enforcement, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 29, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steve W. Berman, Betts, Patterson & Mines, Seattle, WA, for plaintiff-appellant.

Kathryn L. Kafka, Daniel Radin, Asst. Attys. Gen., Seattle, WA, for defendants-appellees.

Before: FARRIS, FERGUSON, and D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judges.


FARRIS, J., Circuit Judge:

Parents Opposed to Punitive Support challenged the constitutionality of the Washington State Child Support Schedule. The district court granted the State's motion for summary judgment. The court ruled that the Schedule did not violate the Equal Protection or the Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

We affirm.

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