Thomas v. Fiedler

BAUER, Chief Judge.

Society has come to recognize the hard way that drivers who operate a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol or drugs pose a serious threat to the health and *991safety of a state’s citizenry. Wisconsin has sought to respond to this problem, in part, by implementing procedures for administratively suspending the driver’s license of any individual whose blood alcohol test results reveal that he or she was driving while impaired. In the present case, a class of plaintiffs aggrieved by the State’s suspension procedures have successfully sued in federal court for an injunction…