Oberhausen v. Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government

MEMORANDUM OPINION

JOHN G. HEYBURN II, Chief Judge.

One of life’s most trivial annoyances— the parking ticket — and one of our most fundamental constitutional protections— due process, form the unlikely nexus for Plaintiffs’ challenge to Metro Government’s enforcement of state and local parking regulations. The Court has devoted considerable effort considering these two at once without either inflating the significance of the former or trivializing the latter.

Plaintiffs focus their arguments on how Defendants’ enforcement policies have violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth…