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02-19-2008, 11:48 PM
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| UBC parking class action, you in or out
so not long ago i got the letter from the class action between Daniel S barbour againt UBC for the unlawful enforcement of parking fines. deciding if i should opt in or out? anyone opting in? if we opt in and the guy wins, then great we get paid, but if the guy looses and ubc decides to throw some sort of counter lawsuit or bs does that mean everyone that opted in is subject to the consequence? i would imagine so.
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02-19-2008, 11:51 PM
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#2 | | HALF HUMAN
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What would be the basis of the counter lawsuit?
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02-20-2008, 01:02 AM
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#3 | | I don't get it either
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hell ya i'm in. btw, do they pay you back for ubc towing your car?
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02-20-2008, 02:44 AM
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What "unlawful enforcement of parking fines"?
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03-31-2009, 11:54 AM
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You may be interested in this: http://www.theprovince.com/news/orde...548/story.html Quote:
A judge has found that UBC has been unlawfully issuing parking tickets since 1990 and has ordered that more than $4 million in fines be paid back to thousands of violators.
In 2006 B.C. Supreme Court Justice Richard Goepel certified a class-action lawsuit on the issue after representative plaintiff Daniel Barbour filed suit against the university.
Barbour, a Vancouver chartered accountant, was angry when his two-door Jaguar was impounded after he left it in a parking lot on Wesbrook Mall on the UBC campus.
He was legally parked at the time but was ordered to pay $200 to get his car back after the university alleged he’d violated the parking regulations on at least one other occasion.
Up until the start of the trial, UBC argued that the parking fines were lawfully collected under the University Act but then admitted that the scheme was illegal.
It then submitted that there were “private law justifications” for the regulations, but in a ruling released Monday, Goepel said that those arguments were not sufficient to uphold the fines.
The judge said that UBC retains the power to remove vehicles that are improperly parked and to recover costs incurred, but he noted that in most cases the fines are far in excess of the damage caused to UBC by the miscreant parker, and said that those penalized trusted that UBC had the power to impose the fines.
“There is something fundamentally unfair that those good citizens should not recover the money that UBC had no right to collect in the first place,” he said in ordering restitution.
“I’m extremely pleased,” said Barbour. “The court has recognized that UBC has been unlawfully collecting fines and unlawfully towing cars solely because people had unpaid tickets. The court has found that those are both illegal activities.”
Barbour added that he likes the university but “they have to stop this particular practice. I certainly know professors out at UBC, students out at UBC, and they’ve all had their cars towed in this sort of fashion. And they’ve been rooting me on.”
Sharon Matthews, Barbour’s lawyer, said there were still several issues to be determined, including setting up a system for people to come forward to be paid.
Court heard that from January 1990 to December 2005, a total of 432,847 traffic tickets were issued and more than half remain unpaid. From September 2000 to March 2006, violation notices were issued to 115,456 licence plates. Only 20 per cent of violators were responsible for nearly half of the violation notices.
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03-31-2009, 02:10 PM
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so how do we get our money back!
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03-31-2009, 02:46 PM
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#7 | | I HERP TO YOU DERP
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i suspect if you were in the class action there would be some letter sent to you with the compensation attached to it
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03-31-2009, 03:48 PM
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fuck this guy...he just screwed a lot of people
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03-31-2009, 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by krazynuck fuck this guy...he just screwed a lot of people | Explain?
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03-31-2009, 08:21 PM
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#10 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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^they are going to lay off people/cut back hours in the department....i happen to work in the department and my hours were just cut in half
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03-31-2009, 08:26 PM
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#11 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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^- maybe dont issue illegal parking tickets then?
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03-31-2009, 08:38 PM
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#12 | | Orgasm Donor & Alatar owned my ass twice!
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Originally Posted by krazynuck ^they are going to lay off people/cut back hours in the department....i happen to work in the department and my hours were just cut in half | Don't you feel bad that some of your pay came from money that was collected illegally? If not, maybe you should also sell stolen merchandise on the side.
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03-31-2009, 09:03 PM
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