COLUMBUS, Ohio - The legal battle over the use of speed cams continues Wednesday in the Ohio Supreme Court.

The state’s high court will hear arguments to decide if a class-action lawsuit can continue against a town in southwest Ohio.

Filed in 2013, the lawsuit seeks to halt New Miami’s automated speed enforcement program.

Since the program began, 31,000 drivers have been issued $95 tickets for traveling 11 mph above the speed limit along New Miami’s main drag.

In just 20 months of ticket writing, the Butler County community collected $3 million.

In July 2012, New Miami contracted with OptoTraffic of Maryland to keep 40% of the fines collected.

Only 113 recipients of the 31,000 notices issued contested the fines, and the net amount collected from those violations amounted to $10,728.

In 2013, ticketed motorists filed their class-action lawsuit seeking to declare New Miami's ASEP unconstitutional and requesting refunds of the citations paid.

A group of drivers argued the hearing process was so restrictive that it was nearly impossible to contest a ticket. Most ticket recipients didn't bother to try, they claimed, because it would be too time-consuming and costly.

The village twice appealed attempts by the class to move forward with their case, arguing the group was improperly certified, and the village was immune from this type of civil lawsuit.

After an appeals court rejected the village's claims, the trial court determined the village had violated the vehicle owners' due process rights and directed the village to repay the ticket recipients $3 million over 10 years.

The village won a third appeal. The Twelfth District reversed the trial court's ruling.

The ticketed drivers appealed to the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case on Wednesday.