The Iowa Supreme Court gave new life to two legal challenges of speeding tickets issued by the automated traffic cameras on Interstate 380 in Cedar Rapids.

The state ordered the cameras turned off or moved two years ago.

The cameras are no longer issuing tickets during an appeal of a separate case, in which a Polk County judge — siding against Cedar Rapids, Muscatine and Des Moines — supported the Iowa Department of Transportation’s authority over traffic cameras on primary highways and interstates in Iowa.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark S. Cady on Thursday signed an order granting further review in two lawsuits — the City of Cedar Rapids vs. Leaf and the Myron Behm et al vs. the City of Cedar Rapids and its traffic camera vendor GATSO USA.

Those two cases were each dismissed in February by the Iowa Court of Appeals.

Read the full article on the Cedar Rapids Gazette website.