Cooley v. State Department of Public Safety

YATES, Presiding Judge.

This is a driver’s-license-suspension and a disqualification case.

On May 31, 2001, William H. Cooley petitioned for a writ of mandamus directing the Alabama Department of Public Safety (“DPS”) to reinstate his driver’s license, which, he says, DPS had erroneously suspended based on a driving-while-impaired (“DWI”) conviction he received in Tennessee. DPS answered, asserting that the agency had “received a sworn report from a law enforcement office pursuant to [§ 32-5A-301, Ala.Code 1975, that Cooley had been] arrested for DUI and [had] registered .08 or more by weight…