Barry Bobbitt claimed he had a First Amendment right to access ticket information—quickly—in a case he filed against several North Texas municipal officials. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit told the traffic ticket lawyer that he has no such right.
In a per curiam decision issued Aug. 6 in Sullo & Bobbitt, Barry Bobbitt v. Stewart Milner, the Fifth Circuit upheld rulings made by a U.S. district judge for the Northern District of Texas who had dismissed the claims Bobbitt and his former law firm had filed against several municipal officials that challenged their record-keeping procedures.
