Bieling v. Malloy

The plaintiff is one of several making common cause in this Court because their automobile driver’s licenses are threatened with suspension for failure to pay their poll taxes. The matter is before the Court on questions certified under V.R.A.P. 5 (a), as follows:

Whether 23 V.S.A. § 604, which empowers the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles to suspend the motor vehicle operators licenses of the plaintiff and plaintiff-intervenors for nonpayment of poll taxes,

1. violates their rights to equal protection of the law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution?

2.…