{"id":803,"date":"2006-03-13T00:48:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T08:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/great_moments_in_jurisprudence.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:06:21","slug":"great_moments_i_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/great_moments_i_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments In Jurisprudence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/65160.htm\">Applying the Equal Protection clause to toll roads<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Accusing the MTA of &#8220;toll discrimination,&#8221; two commuters have filed a class-action suit to end discounts some residents receive on the Verrazano and two other bridges.<\/p>\n<p>The suit says the toll breaks &#8212; given to Staten Island residents on the Verrazano, and to Rockaway\/Broad Channel residents for the Marine Parkway and Cross Bay bridges &#8212; are illegal under state and federal law.<\/p>\n<p>Riva Janes, from Monmouth County, N.J, and Bruce Schwartz, of Queens, claim the &#8220;discriminatory toll pricing violates the United States Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In their suit, they accuse MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow and Bridges and Tunnels President Michael Ascher of &#8220;unlawful charging&#8221; millions of drivers and collecting money to which they are &#8220;not entitled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our clients feel everyone should be treated equally, which is what this case is about,&#8221; said Andrew Bell, one of their attorneys in the case.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applying the Equal Protection clause to toll roads: Accusing the MTA of &#8220;toll discrimination,&#8221; two commuters have filed a class-action suit to end discounts some residents receive on the Verrazano and two other bridges. The suit says the toll breaks &#8212; given to Staten Island residents on the Verrazano, and to Rockaway\/Broad Channel residents for [&hellip;]<\/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-803","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\/803","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=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}