No. 25-176

Tristram Heinz v. City of Philadelphia Bureau of Administrative Adjudication

Lower Court: Pennsylvania
Docketed: 2025-08-13
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment speed-camera
Latest Conference: 2025-10-10
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. 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.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether automated speed camera enforcement programs violate constitutional rights by imposing liability on vehicle owners without identifying the actual driver

Docket Entries

2025-10-14
Petition DENIED.
2025-09-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/10/2025.
2025-06-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 12, 2025)

Attorneys

Tristram P. Heinz
Tristram P. Heinz — Petitioner