In re the Estate of Margulies

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding on a procedural due process challenge to red-light traffic ticket laws that “the modest $50 penalty was not so substantial as to infringe upon a person’s private property rights”
• declining to apply the exclusionary rule in a zoning-enforcement matter that sought to impose de minimis civil fines of $50 because such minor penalties were insufficient to make the action quasi criminal in nature
• declining to apply the exclusionary rule in a zoning-enforcement matter that sought to impose de minimis civil fines of $50 because such minor penalties were insufficient to make the action quasi criminal in nature
• due process satisfied by notice and an opportunity to be heard at an evidentiax-y hearing before assessment of red-light traffic penalty
• “[T]he statutory scheme demonstrates an unequivocal intent to create a civil enforcement mechanism, not a criminal one.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).