| Suit challenges Albuquerque's camera-based traffic enforcement ... | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 12:46:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - The city's camera-based traffic enforcement program violates rights protected by the state constitution, a class action lawsuit contends. Three plaintiffs, including a social worker and a single mother cited under the red-light program, are named in the lawsuit filed earlier this month in state district court. The lawsuit alleges violations of due process, trial by jury and other protections. It seeks a court order to halt the program until legal issues are settled, Richard Sandoval, the plaintiff's attorney, told the Albuquerque Journal in a copyright story published Saturday. Assistant city attorney Greg Wheeler said traffic cameras will withstand the legal challenge. Currently, there are 10 intersections in the city that are monitored by traffic cameras. When a vehicle is caught on camera, the owner is notified a fine is being charged.... | |
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| | | Suit challenges Albuquerque's camera-based traffic enforcement program | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:45:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | ALBUQUERQUE A class action lawsuit contends that Albuquerque's camera-based traffic enforcement program violates rights protected by the state constitution. Three plaintiffs are named in the lawsuit filed earlier this month, including a social worker, and a single mother cited under the red-light program. The plaintiffs' attorney, Richard Sandoval, told the Albuquerque Journal today in a copyright story that the suit seeks a court order to halt the program until legal issues are settled. Currently, there are ten intersections in Albuquerque that are monitored by traffic cameras. An attorney for the city says traffic cameras will withstand the legal challenge. Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.... | |
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| | | Family court hopefuls trade barbs on integrity | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 10:46:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | Four days before the election, two candidates in a Jefferson Family Court race have intensified their attacks on each other. Stung by her opponent's complaint about yard signs, incumbent Judge Joan Byer yesterday produced court records showing challenger Michael George Karem was cited for shoplifting in 1998 and for refusing to move his car from a fire and handicapped access lane in 2001. .... | |
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| | | Court haggles over jail architect selection | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:45:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | Fort Bend County is close to selecting an architectural firm for the jail expansion approved by voters in May, but members of the commissioners court Tuesday couldn't decide how involved they should be in the final selection.Thus far, the county's purchasing agent and other appointed officials have narrowed the list of prospects to four firms, and within two weeks a committee will choose the winner and negotiate a price. A court item on Tuesday called for allowing county officials to enter the negotiations, with the hope of presenting a recommendation and a possible vote at the Nov. 7 commissioners court meeting.Precinct 2 Commissioner Grady Prestage, who explained he served on the court when it was planning the current jail, suggested the court should be more involved with the negotiations.County Judge Bob Hebert said that would be "bad policy"."I'm asking them to do the heavy lifting and come back to the court with recommendations, and I reserve the right to to send them back for more negotiations," Hebert said.... | |
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| | | High Court Denies Pension, Land-Use Cases | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:45:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Supreme Court refused to hear two business-related cases Monday, one involving a fight over Hewlett-Packard's pension plan and the other a land-use dispute in Washington state that attracted attention from a national homebuilders' group. In the H-P case, a former employee, Brentley Coates, argued that Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies Inc., a subsidiary that later was spun off as an independent company, had neglected their fiduciary duties by shifting some pension plan assets from a fixed-income fund to a fund mostly invested in stocks. Coates sued, arguing that the move into stocks was harmful to older workers and retirees. He lost in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. That court found that under pension law, the companies' obligations were to the plan's beneficiaries as a whole, not to any specific subgroup.... | |
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| | | Court added for kid suspects | | Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 2:45:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | LANCASTER - Citing an increase in juvenile crime in the Antelope Valley, court officials will open a second juvenile delinquency court in Lancaster on Tuesday. The juvenile criminal caseload has jumped nearly 30 percent, from 1,182 cases filed in the Antelope Valley in fiscal 2004-2005 to 1,531 cases in 2005-06, making it the busiest juvenile court in Los Angeles County. "I think it's fantastic. It's long overdue," Lancaster Juvenile Court Judge Richard Naranjo said. "We've been working very long hours in this court. "Kids have been waiting all day to have their cases heard, parents are waiting, and victims and witnesses are here until 8 or 9 at night to have their trials completed." The juvenile criminal caseload has jumped nearly 30 percent, from 1,182 cases filed in the Antelope Valley in fiscal 2004-2005 to 1,531 cases in 2005-06, making it the busiest juvenile court in Los Angeles County.... | |
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| | | She turns a forbidding place into a people's court | | Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 6:45:43 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Passaic County Courthouse Complex is intimidating. The buildings stretch over two city blocks surrounded by Grand, Ward, Hamilton and Prince streets in congested and traffic-clogged downtown Paterson. Uniformed and armed sheriff's officers guard the doors at 77 Hamilton St. All briefcases, notebooks, tote bags, pocketbooks, jackets and coats must be placed on a conveyor belt to be examined. Everyone steps through a metal detector and then is checked with a manual wand metal detector. .... | |
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| | | Klagsbald fatal crash case goes before court | | Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:45:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | Road safety groups and the family of Maccabi Tel Aviv athlete Yevgenia Vexler, who was killed along with her six-year-old son in a fatal traffic accident on April 11, will demand justice be done Thursday at the Tel Aviv Traffic Court in the prosecution of well-known lawyer Avigdor "Dori" Klagsbald. Klagsbald, who has in the past represented prime minister Ariel Sharon, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz and Ma'ariv publisher Ofer Nimrodi in court, sustained only minor injuries when his SUV slammed into the back of Vexler's stationary car at the intersection of Einstein Street and Namir Road in north Tel Aviv. Vexler, who would have turned 24 last week, was killed outright and her son, Arthur, died on the way to hospital. "Our concern is that whatever punishment is meted out should act as a deterrent to those who are acting either irresponsibly on the road or in flagrant violation of the law," said Zelda Harris, spokeswoman for road safety organization Metuna.... | |
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| | | Traffic ticket policy is wrong | | Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 6:45:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | A new state police policy barring troopers from plea bargaining traffic tickets with drivers could lead to clogged courtrooms and increased costs for local governments. It needs to be rescinded. The regulation took effect Sept. 1 and is intended to erase ethical concerns about officers making a deal with someone they ticketed. State police say it has been their long-standing policy that troopers shouldn't engage in plea bargaining, though it's been ignored for as long as most can remember. The courts in New York have for years granted district attorneys the authority to allow police officers to prosecute vehicle and traffic violations. Hiring prosecutors and staff to handle violations in the numerous traffic courts in most counties would be unjustifiably expensive. The district attorneys in Dutchess and Ulster have said they will not add staff to plea bargain tickets issued by the state police.... | |
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| | | Traffic chaos: Enterprise Court businesses hurting | | Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 6:45:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | BUSINESS owners in Forster's Breese Parade and Enterprise Court are not ruling out legal action due to lost trade as a result of roadworks in Breese Parade. While they acknowledge that a roundabout under construction in front of Stockland Forster is a necessary evil, the business owners feel the roundabout has taken far too long to build and cost them thousands of dollars in lost trade. "In Canberra, where I am from, it takes a week to build a roundabout," Stewart McMillan of Network Video said. "Sure the roadwork needs to be done, but it doesn't have to take so long. "Not a single person has been working on the roundabout for days." .... | |
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