People v. Zadul

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that provision of Workers’ Compensation Act that imposed fee on certain appellants assisted by counsel but not on similarly situated appellants proceeding pro se violated equal protection principles
• finding fee provisions which differentiated between complainants with and without counsel were not rationally related to legitimate legislative purposes
• same constitutional challenge pending in trial court and likely to recur many times; constitutional question answered
• even though the legislature has an interest in reducing the cost of administrative proceedings, attaching a filing fee to litigants with counsel but not to those without does not pass constitutional scrutiny under the minimum, rational basis standard of review
• fee imposed on retention of counsel in administrative proceedings
• addressing equal protection clause of Federal Constitution

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