The legal ruling highlighted the "poor" quality of a survey used by the department to argue its case - saying its bias "fatally undermines" its credibility.

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While ordering the city to "cease and desist from maintaining a vehicular ticket quota, " the ruling didn't address setting numeric minimums on quality of life summonses, though a subsequent change in state law made setting quotas for those summonses illegal.

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Judge Cooper also noted that she repeatedly warned Kevorkian about the dangers of self-representation and cited a State Supreme Court ruling that defendants who represent themselves cannot complain about the quality of counsel on appeal.

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Regardless of the court's ruling, we remain firmly focused on our mission of providing a flexible, relevant and quality education to nontraditional students and working learners.

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