Vermont Supreme Court Rejects Free Exercise Argument In License Suspension

In Office of Child Support ex rel. Stanzione, (Vt. Sup. Ct., Sept. 13, 2006), the Vermont Supreme Court took only one week after oral arguments to decide that the mother, whose drivers license was suspended for nonpayment of child support, had not made a threshold showing that suspending her drivers' license would substantially burden her free exercise of religion.