Legal Opinion
Adrian Fowler v. Jocelyn Benson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 8, 2019No. 17-2504/18-1089PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge.
*252 This is a case about the constitutionality of Michigan's driver's-license suspension scheme, as applied to indigent drivers. Plaintiffs claim that the Michigan Secretary of State's suspension of an indigent person's driver's license, on the basis of unpaid court debt, violates the Fourteenth Amendment. Plaintiffs contend that suspending the driver's licenses of the poor is irrational because license suspension makes their commuting to and from work, for instance, much harder, and therefore reduces the chances that they will pay the debt. Whatever merit…
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