Benboe v. Carroll

ALLEN, District Judge.

This action is submitted to the Court on the motion of the defendants to dismiss the complaint, which was converted into a motion for summary judgment by order of the Court, lengthy and exhaustive briefs having been filed by the parties.

Plaintiffs, all of whom were, until July 6, 1976, licensed professional bail-bondsmen in Kentucky, challenge the constitutionality of K.R.S. 431.510 et seq., which abolished the commercial bail-bond system in Kentucky and made it unlawful for professional bail-bondsmen to furnish bail, or funds, or property to serve as bail, and provided,…