Ernest Knox and Gwendolyn Hansberry v. Jose O. Salinas, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, City of New Haven

This appeal presents for review a permanent injunction entered by the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Peter C. Dorsey, Judge) against Connecticut’s Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, defendant-appellant José 0. Salinas (the “Commissioner”). Stating that recently adopted regulations “d[id] not go far enough to meet the due process concerns raised by plaintiffs,” the District Court entered an injunction that prescribes detailed procedures for notifying owners when their motor vehicles are towed as well as when a towing company intends to sell an unclaimed vehicle to…