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    A traffic ticket dispute in Oregon turns into a bigger fight over free-speech rights

    by Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times Dec 13, 2017 4 minutes

    In 2013, Mats Jarlstrom's wife got a $260 ticket in the mail for running a red light.

    It wasn't exactly the crime of the century. A camera caught her Volkswagen passing through a Beaverton, Ore., intersection 0.12 second after the light turned from yellow to red.

    Other people might curse, pay the fine and forget about it.

    But Jarlstrom, who earned a degree in electronic engineering in Sweden, got curious: How are yellow lights timed? He decided to investigate.

    Little did he know that his quest would land him with an even bigger fine and morph into a battle over free speech

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