GOOCH v. IOWA DEPT. OF TRANSP.

No. 85-1500.

398 N.W.2d 845 (1987)

Edwin Corvan GOOCH, Appellant, v. IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied February 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee P. Hook of McMurry & Hook Law Firm, Ankeny, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., and Mark Hunacek, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, P.J., and LARSON, SCHULTZ CARTER, and NEUMAN, JJ.


LARSON, Justice.

Edwin Corvan Gooch appeals from the district court's affirmance of the Department of Transportation's (DOT) refusal to renew his driver's license, based on its rule prohibiting issuance of a license to anyone who must wear bioptic telescopic lenses to meet the visual acuity standard required for a license. We affirm.

Gooch is superintendent of the Department of Parks and Recreation in Ankeny, a job which requires that he have an Iowa driver...

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