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SEP 8 2000
PATRICK FISHER
Clerk
No. 00-1212
(D.C. No. 00-M-621)
(District of Colorado)
Defendant - Appellee.
action. Accordingly, the district court did not err in dismissing those claims.
The plaintiffs contention that the State of Colorado may not require him to
have a drivers license is devoid of merit. There is no fundamental right to drive
a motor vehicle. See Miller v. Reed, 176 F.3d 1202, 1205-06 (9th Cir. 1999).
Requiring a drivers license is a reasonable and necessary regulation which does
not offend due process. See Reitz v. Mealey, 314 U.S. 33, 35 (1941) (The use of
the public highways by motor vehicles, with the consequent dangers, renders the
reasonableness and necessity of regulation apparent. The universal practice is to
register ownership of automobiles and to license their drivers.), overruled in part
on other grounds by Perez v. Campbell, 402 U.S. 637, 652-54 (1971).
Accordingly, the judgment of the District of Colorado is AFFIRMED. The
mandate shall issue forthwith.
Bobby R. Baldock
Circuit Judge