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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 98-C-0611 Senator Cleo Fields, et al. Versus State of Louisiana, Through Department of Public Safety and Corrections and Richard L. Stalder, Secretary of Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Direct Appeal from the Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge, Judge Robert Downing Kimball, J.*
ISSUE Acts 1997, No. 1486 authorizes the impounding of a motor vehicle when the operator fails to present the statutorily required proof of insurance to an investigating officer. The trial court declared portions of this Act to be an unconstitutional violation of the right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Art. I,

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