Police learn ways to detect drunk drivers. These include interpreting signs such as the inability to make eye contact, a tendency to be over-talkative or over-friendly, or failing to answer questions properly. Some of these…

This article contribution comes to us from Fay Niselbaum, content specialist at The Law Office of Zev Goldstein. If there’s any issue that shouldn’t be based on politics, contends NY speeding ticket lawyer Zev Goldstein,…

California has been flirting with ignition interlocks for years. Since 2010 four California counties have experimented with requiring the devices for all drunk driving offenses, rather than just serious or repeat offenses, as the rest…

Passing legislation is never easy in American politics. There are lots of ways for a bill to die. Right now in Maryland, Noah’s Law is in critical condition. Once a bill is proposed in Maryland,…

Using an ignition interlock device while driving is easy, once you’re used to it – all you need to do is breathe! But what if you’re having trouble breathing? A bad cold, asthma, or other respiratory…

Legislation is a field in which you can die and then live to die again. Case in point: Wisconsin, where good anti-drunk driving bills go to die on a regular basis. The latest casualty was Assembly…

A law that isn’t enforced is worse than useless. Worse, because it gives citizens a false sense of security that their interests are being looked out for, when in fact they aren’t.  Such is the…

The news from Wisconsin is good. The Assembly has just passed a bill which will make all four-time Wisconsin OWI charges into felonies. The bill now goes to Governor Scott Walker for signing. The bill…

The Wisconsin State Senate just passed a bill that would make any fourth OWI a felony. Right now, a fourth drunk driving offense is a felony only if committed within five years of a third…

It used to be that anyone convicted of DUI in Illinois had to stay off the road for 30 days. No more. On January 1st the state’s new DUI law kicked in. Now those people…