Amunrud v. Board of Appeals
Washington Supreme Court
1DissentSanders, J.
(dissenting) — We do not license drivers to assure they are current in child support payments; we license them to promote highway safety. By the same token, revocation of a driver’s license for a reason completely unrelated to the only legitimate police power justification for the license in the first place violates due process.
¶43 We have long relied on the three prong due process test articulated in Lawton v. Steele.7 For a law or regulation to satisfy due process, it must (1) be aimed at achieving a legitimate public purpose, (2) use means that are reasonably necessary to achieve that…
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