Jose Antonio Alvarado v. State of Washington, Dept. of Licensing

¶1 — This case turns on what type of evidence the Department of Licensing (DOL) must produce at a contested hearing in order to disqualify a commercial driver’s license (CDL) based on a positive drug test. Jose Alvarado argues that principles of statutory interpretation and the constitutional right of due process require that the DOL disclose the laboratory data used to generate a test result instead of merely the test’s conclusions. Finding no such requirement under either standard, we affirm Mr. Alvarado’s CDL disqualification.

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¶2 Jose Alvarado applied to work as a commercial driver for…