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Judge rules against Orlando's red-light cameras
Are refunds next?

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-red-light-camera-lawsuit-20100809,0,6465087.story
 
4:44 p.m. EDT, August 9, 2010
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A judge ruled today that Orlando's system of ticketing red-light runners caught by automated cameras violates state law, raising the possibility of refunds for the tens of thousands of people ticketed by the city during the past two years.

Orange Circuit Judge Frederick Lauten ruled that the city did not have the power to use cameras to ticket drivers who run red lights because that authority is reserved for the state.

"Although the court believes the city's articulated goal is laudable — increasing public safety by reducing red light-running — the challenged city ordinance intrudes on an area of law reserved to the state is therefore invalid," Lauten writes in a ruling issued Monday.

Orlando officials would offer no comment until they reviewed the ruling, but the city is almost certain to appeal.

The lawsuit was filed by a West Palm Beach law firm in the name of a man named Michael Udowychenko, who was ticketed after his vehicle was photographed running a red light. The case was filed as a class-action lawsuit but has not yet been certified as such.

Jason Weisser of the firm Schuler, Halvorson & Weisser said he would begin the legal process of certifying the class by gathering names of those who've been ticketed by the city.

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