A Manhattan appellate court found that the city’s speed camera program is legally sound in a decision that caps off an eight-year legal battle that sought to potentially invalidate millions of automatically issued tickets. A group of speeding ticket recipients argued that speed camera summons violate state traffic law on a technicality. The Appellate Division, First Department justices rejected the argument that a notice of liability must include a technician certificate to be valid. The four petitioners had tried to initiate a class action lawsuit on behalf of “hundreds-of-thousands, if not millions, of individuals who paid for patently invalid and legally insufficient” speeding camera tickets. The court also dismissed claims that the speed camera program violates due process, concluding that the speed camera system provides the opportunity to challenge the violation at a hearing, which is enough notice and opportunity to be heard to satisfy the U.S. constitution.