All will be fine in Speed Camera Land forever now

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Why, becuase the highest court in MD has said so, thats why. Cliff notes.

1. Motorists feeling wronged by the automated enforcement speed cameras file a class action lawsuit alleging that the system in Montgomery County, being set up as a vendor payment based on numbers of citations issued, clearly in violation of state law, which says flat fees only, was illegal, and therefore no citations should be valid.

2. Court decided not to decide on that, although it admitted that the county's fig leaf claim that they operated the system, even though the vendor did all the work, was BS. Since the suit itself was invalid, no need to worry that the suits claim was correct.

4. Decided instead that the citizens had no right to file a class action suit in the first place, since the state had never said it could be sued in a class action suit on this subject. Individuals may sue, but not a class of citizens.

EDITORIAL: Green light for lawbreakers - Washington Times

Public officials deflect criticism over speed cameras by repeating the mantra, “If you follow the law, you won’t have a problem.” The same is true for these officials. Instead of seeking clear guidance from the high court on how to implement the speed-camera law, these officials sought to have the case thrown out on a technicality. Montgomery County and their cohorts may have received their wish, but in so doing, they lost the moral high ground.
Officials in Montgomery County, Rockville, Gaithersburg and the rest have demonstrated they don’t care about the law. All that remains is their concern for the cash.

Yet another example of the fact that this state wants the cash, not the safety. Why help citizens make the programs operate as the law says they should? When it's easier to say STFU, and pay the nice company.