NY Yankees Do Fans A 'Favor' By Preventing Them From Printing Their Tickets...
As an avid sports fan, and more specifically an avid baseball fan, I can still remember the advent of home-printed tickets. My reaction was perhaps more elation than what was warranted, but having...
View ArticleYankees' Dumb Ticket Policy Turns Soccer Match At Yankee Stadium Into A Ghost...
You may recall that we discussed the New York Yankees’ bumbling attempt to institute a new ticket policy for Yankee Stadium that disallowed print-at-home tickets. Dressed up as a policy designed to...
View ArticleAre Robot Scalpers Ripping You Off? Do We Need Government To Stop It?
Ticket scalpers have a bad rep. Critics deride them as “malicious” and “bad actors” and sometimes even deem them the primary cause of a purported nationwide “bot epidemic.” Responding to fan complaints...
View ArticleThe Legal Netherworld Of Traffic Cam Tickets, Where Everything Is Both Civil...
Adam MacLeod, law professor at Faulkner University, was the recipient of a traffic cam speeding ticket. The problem was that he wasn’t driving the vehicle when the infraction occurred. So, it was his...
View ArticleCourt Orders Small Ohio Speed Trap Town To Refund $3 Million In...
The state of Ohio has had its problems with speed cameras. Back in 2010, the city of New Garfield refunded $100,000 in fines collected in violation of its speed camera policy. The city told the public...
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Driver Sues State After Receiving Ticket For 'Obscene' Stick Figure Vehicle...
The problem with bad laws (well, ONE problem) is they’ll need to be enforced at some point. Legislators pass laws out of fear, boredom, or a desire to look busy. They’ll pass laws to push personal...
View ArticleFor Cops Handing Out Bogus Pedestrian Tickets, Ignorance Of The Law Is The...
Ignorance of the law is no excuse… unless you’re a police officer. Then it’s a magical world of immunity and good faith exceptions! But it gets even better. In Florida, ignorance of the law is...
View ArticleRed Light Camera Company Says It's Dying Of Coronavirus
Things change. And the stuff that used to work just doesn’t anymore. We’ve covered a lot of this over the years, mainly focusing on how the rise of the internet was greeted with rent-seeking and...
View ArticleTexas Town To Start Issuing Traffic Tickets By Text Message
Way back in 2014, Oklahoma state senator (and former police officer) Al McAffrey had an idea: what if cops could issue traffic tickets electronically, without ever having to leave the safety and...
View ArticleJudge Says Mayor, Town Can’t Escape 1st Amendment Retaliation Suit Involving...
The problem with electing abusive assholes is you may not know they’re abusive assholes until after you’ve elected them. Then you have a problem on your hands, at least until the next election cycle....
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