Posted on 06/15/2007 1:23:53 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
NEW YORK -- Sometimes it's not the money - but the principle.
Manhattan Lawyer Sanford Young spent $10,000 on principle when he fought a $65 dollar parking ticket and won.
Young got the ticket on November 29th, 2005 on First Avenue where no parking is allowed from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. He returned from dinner and found the ticket with the time 6:59 p.m.
Young says he made sure he parked after 7 p.m. The city offered to reduce the fine to $43, but Young decided to appeal. An administrative law judge found him guilty. So he appealed to another administrative panel -- and lost again. This time he appealed to the state Supreme Court where Justice Emily Jane Goodman - found in his favor.
The $65 ticket was dismissed - after $10,000 in legal expenses.
Young told the New York Post when he got the ticket he was just sick and tired - and he didn't want to take it anymore.
Yes, but now he might be able to sue for damages.
sometimes it’s just the principle. the person who wrote out the ticket surely had a smile... no more.
Yeah and the thing that really irritates me is that he would probably tell a client to pay the ticket unless there was some financial gain in it for him.
He couldn’t take it anymore? Sounds like he took it big time anyway. 10k worth.
At least he was the owner of the car.
Take a look at this NYC parking atrocity.
http://give-n-go.blogspot.com/2007/05/what-kind-of-loser-would-want-my.html
You know what? Good for him. I’m glad someone with the resources to do so was able to stand up to the money-grubbing petty tyrants who use traffic and parking laws as pure revenue grabs. I wish more people were able to stand up thusly.
I think we should socialize the law profession, they obviously make entirely too much money screwing their clients.
Where did the 10k figure come from? Probably made-up BS like applying his “hourly rate” to the time he spent fighting the ticket. Just what we need....more lawyer crap!!!! Pitiful.
“I have to show my photo ID to buy beer at the self checkout at Stop ‘n Shop, but this guy has a formal hearing in front of a government magistrate and never has to show any proof that he is who he says he is.”
It would be “unfair” to require photo ID. < /s >
I think we should socialize the law profession, they obviously make entirely too much money screwing their clients.
Econ 101 says that you can’t have an excess of supply and too-high prices. Which is it?
Reminds me of a story I once heard:
A lawyer dies and goes to heaven. (Easy, its fiction) St. Peter meets him at the pearly gates. The lawyer is contesting his death. (I, don’t know if he paid $10,000.00). He tells the good Saint that there must be some mistake, he is in good health and is only 40 years old. St. Peter looks in his book, and says “No mistake, according to your billing records, you are 90 years old.”
Lawyers are different. An idle lawyer will make work for himself and two or three others and force others to pay the tab.
Up against the wall for the lot of you!
Just so. We’ve all heard the story about the lawyer who started business in a small town and couldn’t make any money—until a second lawyer moved in next door. Then there was plenty of business for both of them.
Should be fired, lose all pension, and have all tickets written in the past 365 days voided.
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