Court Upholds Denial of Drivers’ Licenses
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W. Va. —
The state Supreme Court Friday upheld a state law that allows young school dropouts to be denied or stripped of their driver’s license.
The court split 3-2 in upholding the nation’s first law aimed at denying licenses to 16- and 17-year-old dropouts.
“A child who has an opportunity to go to school and deliberately chooses not to avail himself or herself of such opportunity, demonstrates a general lack of responsibility,” Chief Justice Richard Neely wrote.
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