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This is Handel on the Law.

Marginal legal advice where I tell you you have no case. This is Florida,

where a woman is suing the town she lives in after getting more than $100,000 in parking fines.

And so here is the story of Sandy Martinez. And she parks in her driveway in such a way that

she has violated the town ordinance and has been for over a year parking her car in violation

of the town ordinance, whether it's on her property,

it goes over the driveway, whatever, the story doesn't tell us exactly what she did.

But she's been sitting there and accruing fines of over 100 grand.

And now she is suing the town saying that you have no business, finding me $100,000 that is excessive,

and therefore it is illegal, and therefore the fines should be removed.

And the argument is that the amount of the fines are catastrophic,

and the government doesn't have the

power to impose the financial death penalty, so to speak, for trivial violations.

The company said, or her lawyer said, the town finder $250 per day for the harmless offense of

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