A First Amendment right to dispute a parking ticket?
A limo driver’s angry tiff with a San Francisco parking control officer is headed for a showdown in federal court. The two engaged in a roiling disagreement that allegedly culminated in the meter-minder’s use of pepper spray and a fist. Now a federal appeals court has declined to dismiss the driver’s suit, in which he argues that the meter-minder violated his First Amendment freedom to protest a parking ticket. Read the full story.