When the case went to trial in November of 1993, the Osbornes contended that any attempt to block or curtail their light display was a violation of their right of free speech and an affront to their freedom of religion.
The law would also create a violation called light trespass that would allow local governments to curb residential and commercial outdoor lighting that shines into neighbors' yards and windows.
I know or have heard from a good number of people who have never previously had a traffic citation, who one day open the mail and see their face on a ticket, say for a red-light violation they had no idea they committed, in a place they drove through months ago.
"What am I going to do, get on a plane and fly back to California to contest a ticket?" asked a reader from New York who was baffled recently to get a $271 ticket for a red-light violation in California.
After driving away from a traffic stop over a turn-light violation, Timothy Russell, 43, and Malissa Williams, 30, were shot at 137 times by more than a dozen officers after false reports that they were armed.
If all went well, then you may have just successfully defended yourself against a red-light camera violation.
In October, a 27 year-old named Hiram Huerta-Fraga, who came to the U.S. with his father and stepbrother at age 13, was deported from Gwinnett after being pulled over for a brake light violation.
But a plane circles the camp low, with lights off (an FAA violation) all night long, providing a near-constant droning buzz.
He received the maximum sentence of five years in prison, in light of his violation of a restraining order during the investigation.
The broadcast frequency of many safety applications requires a minimum of 10 Hz (maximum latency is 100 ms), such as for emergency brake lights, traffic signal violation, forward collision, left turn assist and lane-change warning.
