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Re:Oregon punished an engineer for criticizing red-light cam... by mikepurvis on Friday December 08, 2017 @09:38AM (#15878850)
He's probably just done with the whole thing at this point, but I suppose he'd have to counter-sue to recover the money? You'd think it would be an easy case— he was unfairly attacked and incurred costs as a result, therefore the entity doing the attacking needs to pony up.
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Re:Oregon punished an engineer for criticizing red-light cam... by xigency on Friday December 08, 2017 @10:08AM (#15879100)
The suit isn't about money. It's about having the law removed as being unconstitutional.
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Re:Oregon punished an engineer for criticizing red-light cam... by mikepurvis on Friday December 08, 2017 @12:41PM (#15880395)
Right, and he "won" in the sense that they apologized for at least this particular instance and refunded the fine. But the GP is saying that it's really a loss because of all the time and money he had to spend fighting it, which I'm saying could probably be recovered with a lawsuit of his own.
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