Legal Opinion
Gooch v. Iowa Department of Transportation
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided January 14, 1987No. 85-1500PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LARSON, Justice.
Edwin Corvan Gooch appeals from the district court’s affirmance of the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) refusal to renew his driver’s license, based on its rule prohibiting issuance of a license to anyone who must wear bioptic telescopic lenses to meet the visual acuity standard required for a license. We affirm.
Gooch is superintendent of the Department of Parks and Recreation in Ankeny, a job which requires that he have an Iowa driver’s license. He suffers from juvenile macular degeneration, called Stargardt’s Disease, which reduces the central visual acuity of both eyes.…
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