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Tristram Heinz v. City of Philadelphia Bureau of Administrative Adjudication
Paid petition · Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, No. 1231 CD 2022 · judgment May 20, 2024
Certiorari denied · October 14, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
- Whether Section 3370 of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 3370, the Automated Speed Camera Enforcement Program, and an implementing Local Agency Law, Chapter 12-3400 of The Philadelphia Code, impose criminal or civil fines pursuant to the correct legal analysis; and thus whether these provisions (and others of their ilk), with their reliance on automated photo/video systems which do not identify the operators of the vehicles cited and instead find their owners liable for speeding offenses committed by unknown individuals driving the vehicles, violate the Constitutional rights of the owners by depriving those individuals of the protections of the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. ral
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Tristram P. Heinz
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 14 2025Petition DENIED.
- Sep 24 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/10/2025.
- Jun 28 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 12, 2025)