eight-year legal battle<\/a> that sought to potentially invalidate millions of automatically issued tickets.<\/p>\nA group of speeding ticket recipients argued that speed camera summons violate state traffic law on a technicality. Part of the citation on the tickets, called a \u201cnotice of liability,\u201d fails to include a \u201ctechnician\u2019s certificate,\u201d which they argue, must be signed by a specialist employed by the city.<\/p>\n
The Appellate Division, First Department justices rejected the argument that a notice of liability must include a technician certificate to be valid.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThis argument is unavailing,\u201d the court wrote in its decision. \u201cNeither the statute nor any other relevant law appears to further define the contents or form of the \u2018certificate charging the liability.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The justices decided that the city has the discretion to determine the form of a notice of liability. A technician certificate can serve as evidence during a hearing but does not need to be attached to the initial notice sent to the driver, they found.<\/p>\n
The case was originally filed in federal court in 2018 before being dismissed in part for jurisdictional reasons and refiled in state court in 2020. The four petitioners had tried to initiate a class action lawsuit on behalf of \u201chundreds-of-thousands, if not millions, of individuals who paid for patently invalid and legally insufficient\u201d speeding camera tickets.<\/p>\n
On top of its decision about the technical aspects of the summons process, the court found that two of the petitioners weren\u2019t eligible to dispute their 2017 tickets that were the basis for the suit because they had pleaded guilty, paid the fine and waived their rights to a legal challenge.<\/p>\n
The court also dismissed claims that the speed camera program violates due process, concluding that the speed camera system provides the opportunity to challenge the violation at a hearing, which is enough notice and opportunity to be heard to satisfy the U.S. constitution.<\/p>\n
The decision ultimately shut down the class action certification, and also barred further private claims for fraud or misrepresentation. The petitioners\u2019 attorney did not respond about whether they could appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A speed camera-enforced intersection in the Bronx. File Photo by Pablo D. Castillo Jr. A Manhattan appellate court…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":551815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-551814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115979039816103889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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