Statement on Today’s Toll Equity ruling
Statement from Jan Schlichtmann, lead attorney, Massachusetts Turnpike Toll Equity Trust
“We are of course disappointed with the ruling today but our cause endures and the 2,300-strong Toll Equity Trust will immediately appeal this ruling. We believe there is a fundamental constitutional principal involved that must be vindicated: The government cannot constitutionally charge some drivers to use a road system in order for most of the drivers to use it for free. We will immediately petition the Appeals Court to right this wrong and uphold the basic constitutional principal that governmental fees must be fair and equitable.”
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