DC Takes Maryland and Virginia Drivers to Court

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DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced Monday that the District of Columbia filed five lawsuits against drivers from Maryland and Virginia. The drivers, Schwalb says, haven’t paid fines that total more than $400,000 between them, which the District claims they racked up via “repeated dangerous and illegal conduct on DC streets.” The lawsuits were made possible by a law that went into effect last year that allowed such suits; previously, drivers from other states could practically ignore DC citations. These suits follow three suits filed in February against exclusively Maryland drivers.