CITY OF DAVENPORT v. SEYMOUR

No. 06-1753.

755 N.W.2d 533 (2008)

CITY OF DAVENPORT, Appellee, v. Thomas J. SEYMOUR, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

August 29, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. McCarthy of McCarthy, Lammers & Hines, Davenport, and Randall C. Wilson of ACLU of Iowa Foundation, Inc., Des Moines, for appellant.

Christopher S. Jackson, Davenport, for appellee.


APPEL, Justice.

In this case, the court must decide whether traffic regulations and enforcement mechanisms contained in Iowa Code chapter 321 and other code provisions were intended by the legislature to prohibit a municipality from establishing an automatic traffic enforcement system through which the city levels civil penalties against the owners of vehicles that fail to obey red light traffic signals or violate speed laws. Applying our well-established method of...

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