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It turns out you can fight city hall — at least sometimes.

Calgarian Martin Moretttook to the courts Wednesday in what he believed would be a futile bid to fight what he felt was an unjust parking ticket he received last October outside his Woodbine home.

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But in the end, traffic court commissioner Lori Plater accepted Morett’s evidence he believed he was entitled to park his Jeep perpendicularly to the curb, as his neighbours in his cul-de-sac did.

“I’m very pleased with the judge’s decision, I didn’t expect to win the case,” Morett said, shortly after Plater threw out his Oct. 6, $40 parking ticket.

Morett told Plater he was under the assumption it was OK to park nose in to the curb instead of parking parallel to it, because he’d never been ticketed for doing so before.

But he awoke Oct. 6 to find a bylaw officer had ticketed about 25 vehicles in the cul-de-sac, where everyone parked that way because of limited on-street availability.