United States Ninth Circuit

In a case arising from circumstances in which plaintiff was issued several traffic tickets on a military base, a judgment dismissing some citations and imposing a twenty-five dollar processing fee for three of the remaining ones is reversed where: 1) the only reason plaintiff was charged the processing fee was because she received a new version of the citation notice, while others who were also cited for the same violation on the same date were not charged the fee because they received an older version of the notice; and thus, 2) a magistrate judge violated plaintiff's constitutional rights by charging her more than other petty offenders for offenses covering the same time period.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/08/2007
• Decided 05/30/2007
• Published 05/30/2007

Judges

• Before:  DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jerome Kuh, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Tacoma, WA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Barbara J. Sievers, Assistant United States Attorney, Seattle, WA, for the appellee.