Legal Opinion
Patrick Heles v. State of South Dakota Driver Improvement Program, South Dakota Department of Public Safety
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 7, 1982No. 82-1225PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Patrick J. Heles brought this suit for a declaratory judgment that South Dakota law respecting revocation of drivers’ licenses violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by prohibiting him from calling a lawyer for advice before being compelled, on pain of losing his license for one year, to submit to a blood-alcohol test. The District Court, 530 F.Supp. 646 (D.S.D. 1982), agreed with plaintiff, and the State appeals. We are now informed that the plaintiff is dead, and we therefore must dismiss this case as moot.
This is not a class action, nor was there a prayer for…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- United States v. Munsingwear, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Murphy v. HuntSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Heles v. South DakotaDistrict Court, D. South Dakota · 1982
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