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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Hodge grants the Philadelphia Parking Authority’s (PPA) motion to dismiss in this matter concerning parking violations. A citizen had outstanding parking violations and her vehicle was impounded. When she went to pay the tickets and fines to retrieve the vehicle, instead of being assessed the amount of violations pertaining to the vehicle, she was presented with a list of violations under her name totaling $3,705, which included violations by her mother, who shares the same name, going back decades. The citizen went through the process of attending an administrative hearing where they affirmed that she must pay the fines before retrieving the vehicle, but did not notify the citizen of the corrected amount of $1,063; her vehicle was subsequently sold at auction. While the court grants dismissal to the PPA, as it acted properly, as well as all individual defendants, it denies dismissal to the City of Philadelphia. The citizen sufficiently argued that the Bureau of Administrative Adjudication (BAA), as part of the City of Philadelphia, may have violated her constitutional right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment.