Violations involving improper turn, turning from the wrong lane, failure to signal intention or turn, or failure to yield were included as a turning violation.
Stops would be evaluated for their effectiveness in turning up violations or crimes.
Auditors found that about two-thirds of the city's red-light camera tickets are for right-turn violations.
The plaintiffs are also asking the court to enjoin another Arizona law, which turns alleged violations of a federal anti-harboring law into a state crime.
Three surprise highway patrol inspections conducted since May at the Los Angeles terminal turned up violations ranging from faulty brakes to steering problems, Mr. Sewell said.
Nearly 60 percent of supermarket inspections in the last year turned up violations of consumer protections, an increase over the year before, even amid a high-profile city crackdown, the Department of Consumer Affairs said.
The government's intervention began after a "profoundly deaf" guest complained that he was denied a Telephone Device for the Deaf when he visited the hotel in 1996 and 2004, and a subsequent investigation turned up violations of access requirements all over the hotel, federal prosecutors said.
Peggy Barnett, a photographer who is president of her seven-unit co-op on East 22nd Street, said the paperwork is not particularly burdensome, unless inspections turn up violations, for they may result in fines and in a visit to a notary to attest that the violation has been remedied.
