Trucker's City Parking Spat Lands in Federal Court
A truck driver who has accumulated more than a 100 parking tickets in a years-long battle with Milwaukee over where he can park his rig when at home will be taking his case to federal court.
But it wasn’t Nick Stojsavljevic who asked for the higher court. City lawyers requested the move because Stojsavljevic was raising equal protection claims.
“You look at the length of the complaint, and this is something that cries out for a final resolution. Let’s put it to bed appropriately,” the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel quotes Assistant City Attorney Leonard Tokus as saying. “I need to get this to federal court where people are used to looking at violations of constitutional rights.”
The only other traffic-related case that lawyers could recall heading to federal court in Milwaukee involved a due process complaint related to city towing.
Stojsavljevic, who hauls loads long-distance throughout the Midwest, claims he can park overnight on certain streets not covered by restrictive parking ordinances. The city has long disagreed and continues to plaster his rig with $55 parking tickets, the paper reports.
Undeterred by the move to federal court, Stojsavljevic says he’s hired a lawyer and is now asking for $250,000 in damages, including lost time from work.
