Iowa City v. Nolan

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• holding city ordinance imposed strict criminal responsibility on owner of illegally-parked car where ordinance dispensed with mens rea or scienter requirement
• holding that a statute making the owner of a vehicle strictly and vicariously liable for all parking citations is constitutional because the burden of rebutting the government's prima facie case simply shifts to the defendant, who may show, for example, that the car was stolen
• a registered owner may be vicariously liable for his illegally parked vehicle and subject to punishment pursuant to a public welfare regulation

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