The legal ruling highlighted the "poor" qualityof a survey used by the department to argue its case - saying its bias "fatally undermines" its credibility.
While ordering the city to "cease and desist from maintaining a vehicular ticket quota, " the ruling didn't address setting numeric minimums on qualityof life summonses, though a subsequent change in state law made setting quotas for those summonses illegal.
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 qualityof counsel on appeal.