FIELDS v. STATE

No. 98-C-0611.

714 So.2d 1244 (1998)

Senator Cleo FIELDS, et al. v. STATE of Louisiana Through DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS and Richard L. Stalder, Secretary of Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

July 8, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Phillip Ieyoub, Atty. Gen., Roy Achille Mongrue, Jr., Charles H. Braud, Jr., Stephen Alexander Quidd, Patricia Turner Riddick, Baton Rouge, James H. Brown, Jr., New Orleans, for Applicant.

Charles Roger Moore, Keith Patrick Richards, Moore, Walters, Shoenfelt & Thompson, Baton Rouge; Cleo Fields, Cheney C. Joseph, Jr., Charles roger Moore, Baton Rouge, for Respondent.


KIMBALL, Justice.*

ISSUE

Acts 1997, No. 1486 authorizes the impounding of a motor vehicle when the operator fails to present the statutorily required proof of insurance to an investigating officer. The trial court declared portions of this Act to be an unconstitutional violation of the right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Art. I...

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