Smith v. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HUYETT, District Judge.

Appellant Norman Smith has appealed, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 158(a), from an order of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, refusing to enjoin appellee Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (Penn-DOT) from suspending his driver’s license. The court concluded that PennDOT properly suspended Smith’s license when he failed to pay a traffic citation, although he listed it in his Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition. Because I find that PennDOT’s action violated the Bankruptcy Code’s prohibition against discriminatory…