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Court orders state to stop suspending licenses of people too poor to pay debt

By , Daily Memphian Updated: October 18, 2018 10:39 AM CT | Published: October 18, 2018 10:15 AM CT
Tens of thousands of Tennesseans whose licenses were suspended because they were too poor to pay court debt won a major victory this week when a judge ruled in their favor against the state.

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Sam Stockard

Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.

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