Court Opinion

ID: 9426781
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:18:55.029913+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:03.122718
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Mr. Justice Brennan,
concurring in the result.
My Brother Stevens’ concurring opinion makes clear that appellee’s license was revoked under a valid regulation making *118revocation mandatory if his license had been suspended three times within 10 years. Rule 6-206 (a) 3 (1975). Appellee’s license was properly suspended for a third time within a 10-year period when he was convicted of a speeding violation on March 31, 1976. This suspension, and both earlier suspensions, were based on convictions for traffic offenses which appellee does not contest here. Under these circumstances, the requirement of a prior hearing mandated by Bell v. Burson, 402 U. S. 535 (1971), is not applicable since, as my Brother Stevens demonstrates, a hearing was unnecessary to establish what was already clear — that the revocation of appellee’s license was mandatory.