The Utah Supreme Court has issued another loss to three drivers in a fight over parking tickets.
In a 5-0 decision, the justices upheld a lower court ruling throwing out a lawsuit by the trio that claimed Salt Lake City was unjustly enriched, and violated motorists’ due process rights, after it replaced curbside meters with electronic pay stations.
The switch — “from Industrial-era, coin-operated, single-space parking meters (where each parking space had its own meter) to a postindustrial system of multi-space, credit-card-ready parking pay stations,” in the words of Justice Deno Himonas — began in late 2011 and by March 2012, Salt Lake City had replaced all of its 2,100 coin-operated meters with 344 parking kiosks.