Citation

The idea here obviously won’t ever be put into practice but if proposed would definitely be met with lots of controversy

Let’s say for instance you get a speeding ticket and you’re an average American who makes about $33,000 a year and you rack a speeding ticket. A non-reckless driving speeding ticket will run you about $200 or .61% of our example average income.

So if you’re an extremely wealthy person and make about 1,000,000 a year that ticket jumps from 200 (which would be .2% your annual income) to a $6,100 ticket

Alternatively if you’re low income and you only make about 20,000. That $200 ticket (1% of your annual income) goes down to $122

At this point people might accuse this as communism, but not really. Communism would be raising the price of bread or milk because you make more money. While there are elements of this kind of structure in American society today, such as food stamps for those who cannot afford food, and adjusted tax brackets for higher income homes. Speeding isn’t a necessity like food or taxes. Laws that are punished by fines should have equal consequences to all people. This can be simply avoided by obeying the laws of the road, and the ability to dispute the ticket does not go anywhere, just the severity of the punishment

I am not a lawmaker or economist nor do I have any experience in those fields, I’m just curious and want to have conversation on this topic as this is a law that if proposed I would support, but I know there’d be a compelling counter argument and i want to hear that as well

I was pulled over on morning of 11/24. He told me he was going to give me a citation for failure to signal, and a formal warning for following a car too closely. HOWEVER, he did not hand me the citation that morning claiming his printer was broken and he had to go help someone else so he was in a rush. I didn't get it in the mail until 9 days later, it says my appearance date is on/before 14 days (it doesn't specifically say from date of incident, but I assume that's what it means). This leaves me only 5 days to appear there to schedule a hearing.

1. He checked the box that states "I served a copy of the civil infraction complaint upon the defendant". But he did not "serve" it to me, he mailed it in an envelope which was post marked 7 days after incident and didn't arrive until 9 days after incident. Since it was by mail, does that count as a "serve", especially since it leaves me only tomorrow, Monday, or Tuesday to appear?

2. The following too closely was officially listed as charge #2, but the Warning box was checked, not a civil infraction. Do I have to formally sign for that charge on the ticket also (either take responsibility or include it in the hearing along with the no signaling). If i were to just take responsibility for this would it a) come with a fine for me or no since its just a warning? b) show up on my driving record in their database still since it was on the citation c) would insurance be informed of it even though its a warning, and raise my insurance premium?

3. At the appearance date it says I can schedule either an informal hearing without lawyers, or formal where lawyers are involved. Depending on the answers to above questions, which should I choose?

It appears that starting 12/14 Orange County has started to issue citations to businesses that were not adhering to county executive order 2020-51.

Not sure if I'm allowed to post more details since it would be disclosing the personal information of the businesses, their owners, and county employees but here's a redacted bit: https://imgur.com/YpUBR8P

They've issued citations to several businesses including a franchise car dealer, various restaurants, and a bar.

Studying for my MSc in Finance. Wrote thesis in LaTeX (Overleaf), messed up right before turning in, so all references are numbered according to their place in the reference list, instead of stating the author. I.e. Wilkins (43) found that... or even worse, for the end-of-sentence references it does not even state the author, just "This thing is true because facts (43)."

I pleaded with the school to accept the new version, which I sent five minutes later, but to no avail. I also wrote my professor to thank him for mentoring me, and to let him know that he should be aware of the mishap when reading through when grading.

The prof. said that the thesis was more or less a certain A, but after this mishap, I'm sure I'll suffer.

How F'ed am I?