In re Donley’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 196 W. Va. 588 - Muscatell v. Cline · 160 W. Va. 248 - North v. West Virginia Board of Regents · 161 W. Va. 750 - Jordan v. Roberts · State Ex Rel. Leonard v. Hey · 173 W. Va. 443 - Dolin v. Roberts
Most-quoted passages
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“[P]rinciples of fairness suggest that the same promptness concerns that are imposed upon a defendant who requests a hearing in connection with an administrative revocation of his operator’s license should be similarly imposed upon the West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (“DMV”). To permit the DMV to grant itself an extension of the 180-day deadline for revocation hearings that is mandated by West Virginia Code § 17C-5A-2(b) (2004) without providing for any limits on the length of such extensions encourages the establishment of a lopsided system — a system that proves inherently unjust for the defendant____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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