Pollion v. Lewis

For the reasons stated in my prior dissent,1 I am in agreement with the majority’s conclusion that the driver’s licenses and vehicle registrations of the class plaintiffs were revoked in a constitutionally impermissible manner, and that these rights must be immediately reinstated by the defendants. However, I cannot join in the majority’s belated attempt to reconstrue the challenged statutory scheme in a strained manner designed to save its constitutionality.

In its original opinion filed November 25, 1970, the majority ruled that the Illinois Financial Responsibility Law provides for hearings…