Writing that a man who had his driver’s license revoked by the state DMV based on a 24-year-old driving-related default conviction was “caught in a situation almost worthy of Kafka,” a state appeals court has annulled the license revocation and deemed it “arbitrary and capricious.”

“Imposition of the required [one-year-long license revocation] penalty 24 years after the fact, which DMV admits was attributable to a potential data-entry error, while continuing to renew petitioner’s license [in previous years] without apprising him of any problem, is the quintessence of an arbitrary and capricious action,” wrote Appellate Division, First Department Justice Sallie Manzanet-Daniels on behalf of a unanimous panel.

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