Rushworth v. Registrar of Motor Vehicles

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that pursuant to G.L.c. 90, §22(f), “[t]he Registrar has no discretion on whether to suspend, and suspension follows automatically from a conviction on an undedying drug offense as an ancillary part of the criminal proceedings”
• noting that “G.L.c. 90, Section 22(f), requires that the Registrar suspend, for a period not to exceed five years, the driver’s license or right to operate of a person convicted of violating any provision ofG.L.c. 94C”
• “Once the Legislature has specifically authorized two punishments, double jeopardy principles are not implicated, and the direction of the Legislature is to be enforced”
• statute providing for automatic driver’s license suspension upon conviction of controlled substance violation serves legitimate legislative purposes of deterrence and rehabilitation and thus does not violate substantive due process guarantees
• where government acts under allegedly unconstitutional statute, “it is appropriate for the courts, as soon as reasonably possible, to resolve challenges to the validity of the statute”
• \there is no fundamental right to operate a motor vehicle\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).