6th circuit appeal shows traffic stops commercial, improperly criminalized

Unprecedented lawsuit says traffic stop victims have right to administrative hearing before criminal prosecution, jail

Sheriff Austin Garrett, left, holds a press confeence at the jail in which he caged me Nov. 22, 2023, for traveling in an automobile with a slightly damaged taillight. (Photo HCSO)

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Tuesday, July 8, 2025 — My bid to overturn the dismissal of my case in U.S. district court contains a 13,000-word brief and a 16-part appendix showing that traffic regulation has never been upon — or against — private, pleasure use of the roads.

By judicial fraud, legal fiction and a framework of official embezzlement against the public, government employees such as judges and cops (1) presumptively commercialize use of the public roads and (2) illegally criminalize equipment and “rules of the road” breaches by people using the privilege. (Amazingly, my suit’s thesis is that “driving or operating a motor vehicle is a privilege”).

My federal lawsuit against a sheriff, deputy and Hamilton County, Tenn., is without precedent in civil rights lawsuits under 40 U.S.C. § 1982, arguing that my Nov. 22, 2023, arrest by deputy Brandon Bennett was a tort because I had a right, in tootling down the road in a car with a damaged taillight, to have the accusation of the glitch made against me not by arrest, jailing and criminal prosecution, but by a contested case under privilege law within the state department of safety, issuer of the privilege.

You got your driver license from DOSHS, which regulates the transportation trades in two bodies of law, title 65, chapter 15, and title 55, motor and other vehicles, with registration falling to department of revenue.

Christian documentation on motor vehicles

APPEAL BRIEF to 6th circuit court

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Appendix of laws, 1905 to 1947 — traffic stops for carriers

Appendix I — Since 1905, laws target carriers, haulers

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Appendix II — traffic law on trucking only, federal

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It costs me F$21.25 at the Soddy-Daisy post office to put my brief to the 6th circuit court of appeals Monday, July 7 2025, in my suit against Hamilton County and Sheriff Austin Garrett for their longstanding abuse and fraud against users of the public roads by misuse of criminal, peacekeeping authority. (Photo David Tulis)

I am suing Hamilton County deputy Brandon Bennett in his personal capacity for arresting me under title 55, motor and other vehicles, denying me a contested case hearing under administrative law in title 55 he pretends to be enforcing under criminal authority. (Photo David Tulis)

My fight to undo a dismissal by U.S. district court judge Travis McDonough includes an extensive appendix of Tennessee and federal law, showing that private use of the roads has never been the object of regulation under the privilege. This work is Christian ministry rescuing the oppressed, one not yet funded by local churches and charity orgs. (Photo WDavid Tulis)

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David runs a personal nonprofit fighting and mercy ministry. He thanks you for checks sent directly to c/o 10520 Brickhill Lane, Soddy-Daisy, TN 37379. Also at GiveSendGo.