finding statute providing for loss of driver’s license based on age was unconstitutional special legislation lacking rational differentiation and violating the guarantees of equal protection
How later courts described this case
- finding statute providing for loss of driver’s license based on age was unconstitutional special legislation lacking rational differentiation and violating the guarantees of equal protection
- holding unconstitutional a statute which provided for driver’s license suspension for persons under 19 after conviction of any alcohol-related offense
- stating “the particular protections” of unambiguous constitutional language “must be harmonized with other protective language.”
- determining such an arrangement violated prohibitions on cruel and unusual punishment
Written by the judges who cited it.
Distinguished
Distinguished by Rowe v. Department of Licensing, 88 Wash. App. 781 (1997)
However, Johnson is distinguishable because the offense in Johnson was limited to being a minor in possession and did not involve the use of a vehicle.
The opinion
THOMAS, Justice,
concurring specially.
I agree that the challenged statutory scheme must be abrogated as unconstitutional under the requirements of our equal protection of the law provision in the State constitution. Art. 1, § 34, Wyo. Const. I join in the opinion of the court insofar as it so holds.
Beyond that holding, the opinion of the court is too far ranging in philosophy, jurisprudence, and legal theories. I cannot subscribe to all of concepts and dicta incorporated therein, and consequently I join only in the result reached of declaring the statutes unconstitutional.