Carlin v. Rochfort

How courts have described this case

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• observing that the “severity of this sanction transforms what is a remedial law in the context of a one year disqualification, into a penal law”
• holding in a non-constitutional case that Section 1611(c) applies to CDL holders whether their DUI offenses occur while they are driving commercial or personal vehicles
• holding in a non-constitutional case that Section 1611(c) applies to CDL holders regardless of whether their DUIs occur while they are driving commercial or personal vehicles
• agreeing with appellee [without engaging ina Mendoza-Martinez analysis] that the lifetime revocation of a Suinelaa driver’s license for two DUI convictions turned a remedial law Into a penal hs because the license holder lost the.right to practice their chosen profession

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