Legal Opinion
Mendoza v. Garrett
District Court, D. Oregon
Decided December 12, 2018No. 3:18-cv-01634-HZPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HERNANDEZ, District Judge:
*1150Plaintiffs bring this action on behalf of themselves and a putative class, challenging Oregon's practice of suspending an individual's driver's license for failure to pay "traffic debt."1 More specifically, the six named Plaintiffs, each of whom lives on an extremely limited income and has had a driver's license suspended because of the inability to pay one or more traffic violation fines, contend that suspending a driver's license for failure to pay traffic debt absent an assessment of an individual's ability to pay violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the United…
2Cases cited53 opinions
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- Dandridge v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
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3Cited by17 opinions
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