State Ex Rel. Director of Revenue v. Gaertner

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN PROHIBITION.

PRICE, Chief Justice.

The Director of Revenue seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent the Circuit Court of St. Louis County from reviewing a driver’s license revocation. The Director contends that the Circuit Court of St. Louis County lacks subject matter jurisdiction to review a driver’s license revocation that arose when a driver refused to submit to a chemical test to determine blood alcohol content after being arrested in the City of St. Louis. Because the driver in such cases must petition for review in the county of his arrest, we make our preliminary…