Tennessee driver's licenses can be suspended for unpaid traffic fines after court reversal

Tennessee residents with overdue traffic fines can have their driver's licenses suspended for not paying traffic related fines, according to an appellate court ruling.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a preliminary injunction this week in response to a 2017 class-action lawsuit that had ruled suspension of a driver's license solely for not paying traffic fines violated the 14th amendment.

The ruling was made looking at a similar Michigan case that ruled that state's police the suspension of driver's licenses for unpaid traffic fines did not violate the constitution.

The preliminary injunction that stopped Tennessee from revoking driver's licenses for unpaid fines while the suit was pending was issued by U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger, in 2018.

Read more: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2020/05/23/judge-tennessee-drivers-license-can-suspended-unpaid-fines/5249594002/