Bessette v. Malloy

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff George Bessette and intervenors Maurice Paulin, Starrlee Paulin, and Jacqueline Hanes were all notified by defendant Malloy, the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for the State of Vermont, of the proposed suspension of their motor vehicle operators’ licenses under § 604 of Title 23 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated (V.S.A.) for failure to pay their poll taxes.1 Plaintiffs seek a declaration that 23 V.S.A. § 604 is unconstitutional as violative of the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, and they request preliminary and permanent…