Opinion ID: 1377776
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Fair is Fair.

Text: If Yogi Berra during his long baseball career has not said fair is fair then his one-time manager, Casey Stengel, should receive the credit. The above quoted notice is unfair and misleading. The statute, former ORS 582.540, provided that Dooney should have been notified of MVD's intention to suspend. It would have taken no additional effort on MVD's part to have notified Dooney, YOUR DRIVING PRIVILEGES WILL BE SUSPENDED EFFECTIVE 12:01 A.M. ON 06-03-84 UNLESS YOU APPLY FOR A PRESUSPENSION HEARING WITHIN 20 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS NOTICE.  Or it could have notified him, You may request a formal presuspension hearing to contest the elements of the sworn report. There is nothing in the MVD's notice to Dooney that suggests or implies that if he applies for a hearing the suspension will be abated or continued from and after the June 3, 1984 date or until the hearing is held. If a person in Dooney's shoes after reading that his license was going to be suspended effective 12-01 A.M. on 06-03-84 UNTIL 10-01-84 concluded that a request for a hearing would be for an after the fact hearing, his conclusions would have been reinforced when he read that there was a reinstatement fee of $25 and that he might be eligible for an occupational license. The deficiencies in the notice given Dooney are not as gross as those in Tooley and Adams but they are enough to render it invalid.