In Re Red Light Photo Enforcement Cases
Opinion
Opinion
O'Melveny & Myers, B. Boyd Hight, James P. Jenal, James P. Kidder; McKenna Long & Aldridge, Robert J. Lauchlan, Jr., Ross H. Hyslop and Jim
McNeill for Defendants and Respondents ACS State and Local Solutions, Inc., Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., and PRWT.
Jenkins & Hogin, Michael Jenkins, Gregg Kovacevich and John C. Cotti for Defendant and Respondent City of West Hollywood.
Dennis J. Herrera, City Attorney (San Francisco), Burk E. Delventhal and Vince Chhabria, Deputy City Attorneys, for League of California Cities and City and County of San Francisco as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.
McCONNELL, P. J.
In 1995 the Legislature added section 21455.5 to the Vehicle Code, which authorizes municipalities to enforce red light violations through the use of automated traffic enforcement systems. (Veh. Code, § 21455.5, subd. (a).) Plaintiff in one of five coordinated cases that challenged the systems contends the trial court erred by granting the defendant city's motion for summary judgment on the ground that as a matter of law his taxpayer waste cause of action and petition for writ of mandate lack merit. [1] We find no error, as red light photo…