In Lubin v. Panish (1974) 415 U.S. 709, a petitioner who had declared under oath that he was without assets or income, was successful in establishing that a California statute requiring him to pay a $ 701.60 filing fee to run for county supervisor, and which did not provide any alternative means of access to the ballot, "deprived him, as an indigent person unable to pay the fee, and others similarly situated, of the equal protection guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment and rights of expression and association guaranteed by the First Amendment." ( Id., at p. 710 39 L.Ed.2d at p. 705.)