Mats Järlström Lawsuit

Beaverton resident mats järlström standing between his lawyers outside u s.

Mats järlström lawsuit.

That s the gist of a new lawsuit filed by mats järlström who was fined 500 by an oregon agency after he suggested that the standard formula for timing yellow lights could be improved. In 2013 mats järlström s wife got a red light camera ticket at an intersection in oregon. Mats sued the board in 2017 asserting that oregon s engineering licensing law violated his first amendment rights by banning him. Arlington va on december 28 2018 magistrate judge stacie f.

Järlström an electrical engineer by training investigated the formula used to time yellow lights. The board also forbade him. In 2017 mats järlström was fined 500 by the oregon state board of examiners for engineering and land surveying for using the word engineer to describe himself. But for mats järlström an oregon electrical engineer a red light ticket issued to his wife set off a multiyear quest to reform the whole methodology behind traffic signal timing.

District court in portland in april 2017 said he felt violated having to pay a 500 fine to the oregon state board. A federal judge has ruled that the oregon board of examiners for engineering and land surveying violated the first amendment when it tried to fine mats järlström an. Oregon wants the lawsuit thrown out but järlström and his attorneys from the institute for justice want the law itself declared. Mats järlström s emotions were clearly visible friday morning.

After years of arguing red light traffic cameras are flawed the official journal of the institute of transportation engineers said.