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.
There are too many greedy thieving lawyers out there. I think the decent ones are few and far between.
If he had the extra cash to spend on principle, why not?
And what do you base this opinion on? the propaganda you get from the insurance industry?
Is it really a conservative point of view to believe that someone who was harmed by a corporation should either be forced to bear the costs themselves, or that society as a whole should pay and let the corporation skate?
Precisely. Dumb reporter probably just dictated the figure given to him. Now, if this lawyer had been identified with the Republican party, the line would have been "...alleged to have spent $10,000..."
Normally I would side against the lawyer on principal, but I think even less of the traffic and parking shakedown industry. A pity they can’t both lose.
Apparently that was an allusion to a play from some time earlier, the plot of which revolved around someone refusing to pay a $2 fine when he was innocent.
I don’t know - I took the advice of a lawyer once regarding a ticket. I was 19 years old and driving home from visiting my girlfriend. My car has been having some mechanical problems and literally was not capable of doing the speed I was pulled over for doing, under the circumstances.
But it was a training stop - the State Trooper had a young trainee with him. He wrote me a ticket for 10 MPH over the posted speed limit. My car was literally unable to attain the speed I was accused of - verified by 2 mechanics.
Spoke to family lawyer and was advised that I would probably win, but the cost of winning would be higher than the cost of the ticket.
Of course, he didn’t factor in the increase in auto insurance.... nor the fact that I was letting yet another “generation” of state police officers be trained to write fraudulent tickets.
No mistake, according to your billing records, you are 90 years old.
I’d be willing to wager that it was a Lawyer who INVENTED that joke.
Did he hire an attorney? If he did, I bet he ends up contesting the bill. Old lawyer wisdom: never take a client who only wants to fight for the principle. They never pay their bill.
if he wins he will probably get tens of millions of taxpayer money as punitive damages...probably sees it as an investment.
A few days ago, I parked at a meter to go into my bank. Put a dime in the meter for 10 minutes, when I came out 5 minutes later the meter reader was preparing a ticket, foot on my rear bumper reading the tag. He left as I opened my door. Eager beavers, eh?
No exaggeration- He could have built a school with that money. What a waste of resources!
http://www.cambodiaschools.com/
“Lawyers are different. An idle lawyer will make work for himself and two or three others and force others to pay the tab.”
How does a lawyer, that doesn’t work for the state, force anyone to do anything?
By filing frivolous lawsuits, forcing you to employ another land shark to fight off the first one.
Personally I believe lawyers should not be allowed to hold public office. They have setup a system that only benefits the lawyers.
So yes there is an excess—i.e. there is an excess of moronic regulation
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