(OUR GOLD GUY) – There’s nothing worse than when you’re having a bad day and come back to your car to find a parking ticket on your windshield. Except, maybe, if that ticket was for $100,000, and you got it for parking on your own property.
That’s what happened to Sandy Martinez, a resident of Lantana, Florida. Teaming up with attorneys at the libertarian-leaning Institute for Justice (IJ), she is suing the town over a parking violation fine assigned to her that totaled more than $100,000. When combined with two other infractions, the total the city wants to take from Martinez comes to an astounding $165,000. Her lawsuit argues that such excessive fines over such minor offenses violate the Florida state constitution, which “forbids fines that are ‘excessive’ or ‘shock the conscience,’’ according to IJ’s Ari Bargil.
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