{"id":1960,"date":"2007-01-02T11:07:24","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T19:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/two_of_our_favorite_things_--_black_cars_and_trial_attorneys_--_remind_us_to_expect_the_impossible.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T15:05:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:05:27","slug":"our_two_favorit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/our_two_favorit.html","title":{"rendered":"Two Of Our Favorite Things — Black Cars And Trial Attorneys — Remind Us To Expect The Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"

This all sounds perfectly reasonable<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[Black car advocate and Manhattan attorney Lauren Z.] Asher, who speaks at Lamborghini speed and wears her brown hair swept back in a banana clip, is thirty-three. Last year, her second in solo practice, she handled around three thousand taxi and black-car cases, making her, as the editor of Black Car News said recently, “one of the biggies” in the field. In September, she opened an office on Eighth Avenue, a block up from a Lukoil station and near a couple of taxi stands.<\/p>\n

It was 8:30 A.M., and Asher was examining the summons of Olusegun Victor Samuel, a Nigerian cabbie who’d been issued a summons for running a stop sign at the corner of Spring and Washington. “It’s an unknown cop,” she said\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmeaning one unfamiliar to her, and thus, likely, with the clubby ways of the D.M.V. court — “which is great for me.” Suddenly, Asher ran down the hall, popping her head into a chamber designated Hearing Room 3. “I didn’t want the case to get pulled,” she explained.<\/p>\n

A few minutes later, the trial commenced. Asher, the defendant (wearing a maroon puffy jacket), and the officer who wrote the ticket stood in front of the bench. The officer read aloud from his notes:<\/p>\n

“I was on the northwest corner travelling eastbound, when I observed a Ford yellow taxi coming southbound down Washington Street. I observed the vehicle go through a marked stop sign approximately ten feet before the crosswalk and proceeded to pull the motorist over.”<\/p>\n

Asher made a motion to dismiss.<\/p>\n

“Granted.”<\/p>\n

The officer apparently had not described the traffic signal in sufficient detail. “A stop sign’s an eight-sided red sign with the word ‘STOP’ on it, has to face oncoming traffic, has to be posted near the corner,” Asher said. “And he didn’t get any of that.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This all sounds perfectly reasonable: [Black car advocate and Manhattan attorney Lauren Z.] Asher, who speaks at Lamborghini speed and wears her brown hair swept back in a banana clip, is thirty-three. Last year, her second in solo practice, she handled around three thousand taxi and black-car cases, making her, as the editor of Black […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}