The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a dispute between Florida, California and Washington Tuesday. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
May 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by Florida against California and Washington over a fatal crash involving a truck driver who was an undocumented immigrant.
The suit alleged that the states allowed people without proper documentation and an inability to understand English to get commercial driver's licenses.
The case stems from a fatal Aug. 18 crash on the Florida Turnpike in St. Lucie, Fla. The accident killed three people. The driver of a truck in the crash was Harjinder Singh, 28, of California, who was charged with three counts of vehicular homicide after he allegedly tried to make an illegal U-turn. Singh, who was born in India, allegedly didn't understand English road signs and had been issued licenses in California and Washington.
The court rejected the case without comment. But Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito wrote a dissenting opinion saying they wanted to hear the dispute.
