He's asking for damages that would be determined after a trial. And Lietz is asking a judge to allow it to move forward as a class action lawsuit, representing almost any driver who got a speeding ticket from the camera since the work zone sign was installed. of unjust enrichment and says the camera violates the Constitution's Eighth Amendment protection against excessive fines and 14th Amendment protection of due process. The work-zone sign was added last May, and as WTOP reported late last year, that led to a dramatic jump in the number of speeding tickets issued - from 9,438 in May to 22,889 in June. And he adds that there are even questions as to whether work ever occurred at the site. law requires multiple signs to indicate there is a work zone along a roadway. "If you really wanted people to know to slow down because there was an actual work zone, you would get lights up around the work zone, and you'd have more signs and cones and barrels and all of the things that we would normally think would be attendant with a well and properly marked work zone. "This tends to indicate that this speed camera is all about revenue generation, and isn't at all about public safety," says David Lietz, one of the attorneys representing the Matthews. Much the same happened to Reginald Matthews that same month. That means the $100 ticket she otherwise would have gotten for speeding more than 10 mph above the posted speed limit doubled to $200. But along the stretch where the camera is placed, a small sign declared it a work zone, dropping the speed limit to 40 mph. According to the lawsuit, Teresa Matthews was driving 52 mph along 295 last November, just over the 50-mph speed limit. The camera is located in the southbound lanes just off of Pennsylvania Avenue SE. by doubling the civil fines for a work zone that does not exist or that is improperly marked," according to a class action lawsuit in the U.S. has unlawfully and unconstitutionally used a single speed camera in a 40-mph zone on Interstate 295 to "raise millions of dollars of revenue. Husband and wife Teresa and Reginald Matthews allege that D.C. Plenty of drivers have complained about getting speeding tickets in D.C., but two are taking it a step further: they're suing. There are more than 120 traffic cameras in D.C., which issue more than 1 million tickets a year for red-light running and speeding.
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