DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa woman who says she was wrongly ticketed by an automated traffic camera when she wasn't speeding has accomplished the unusual feat of getting the state Supreme Court to consider her $75 small-claims case.

For Marla Leaf, 67, it's not about money, but about constitutional rights. Her attorney, James Larew, will argue Wednesday that the city of Cedar Rapids, where Leaf lives and was ticketed, is violating equal protection and due process clauses of the Iowa Constitution in part because it delegates police power to Gatso USA — the private, for-profit company hired to run the equipment.

Leaf's case, which the Iowa Supreme Court has combined with another case with similar arguments involving six vehicle owners, is unusual because small claims rarely make it to the state's highest court.

"It shows that what seems sometimes like the smallest case can actually involve really major issues," said Drake University law professor Mark Kende.

Read the full article on the Council Bluffs Daily Non-Pareil website.