Deal on Parking Refunds
Posted May 9 at 4:02 pm by Rick Anderson
The check is not yet in the mail, but will be by October for thousands of Seattle drivers wrongly ticketed for overtime parking on legal holidays. Attorneys for a Bellevue woman who won a lawsuit in 2007, today announced the city has agreed to refund from $22 to around $75 to those whose cars were ticketed or impounded.
The city could have to cough up as much as $500,000 by the time refund checks go out at the end of October. According to law firm Bendich Stobaugh & Strong:
The judgment ends a lawsuit filed in 2006 by Bellevue resident Colette Turner, who was ticketed for failing to pay a parking meter on Friday, December 31, 2004. At the time Turner was ticketed, the city
