State v. Miner’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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1. ““The fact that the licensing requirements may foreclose a certain method of buying and selling used vehicles does not impute to the legislature an intent to enact an unworkable statute. The prohibition of a legitimate business has nothing to do with the outcome of this appeal. See Chicago Title Insurance Co. v. Huff, 256 N.W.2d 17, 23-25 (Iowa 1977) (prohibition of in-state sales of title insurance a reasonable exercise of state’s police power). The legislature may prohibit any business deemed inimical to public welfare. Id. at 25 . “We conclude that the plain meaning of section 322.3(2) and regulation 10.1(4) requires defendant to be licensed as a dealer in order to engage in the retail sale of used motor vehicles. We next consider whether the application of the licensing requirement to defendant violates constitutional and statutory provisions. “II. Constitutional and statutory considerations. Defendant makes use of the scatter gun approach to raise a number of constitutional and statutory issues. We find no constitutional or statutory provisions which preclude the application of the licensing requirements to defendant. “A. Defendant claims that the licensing requirements deprive him of due process and equal protection under the federal and Iowa constitutions. U.S. Const, amend. XIV; Iowa Const, art. 1, § 9. Defendant made no attempt to obtain a dealer’s license; his claims, therefore, are basically substantive due process claims in other guises. “Because the federal and st”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Blue v. McBride

2. “The Iowa Administrative [P]rocedure Act affords the legislature an opportunity to object to agency rules and to override them by statute. These steps were not taken by the legislature; therefore, we assume that the legislature approved of the requirement that brokers be licensed as dealers and of the resulting application of the title requirements to all who initiate the retail sale of motor vehicles.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Des Moines v. Iowa Dep't of Transp. & Iowa Transp. Comm'n

3. “was following what the legislature had already directed in section 322.3(2).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Des Moines v. Iowa Dep't of Transp. & Iowa Transp. Comm'n