Constitutional Law
Sep. 25, 2012
Injunction bars city from seizing poor folks property
Long story short, the 9th Circuit is not always opposed to private property rights. It evidently depends on whose property and how politically correct its owners are.
It isn't every day that your faithful servant finds himself in basic agreement with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky who can usually be found on the other side of the ideological spectrum, but whose recent column ("Constitution protects the homeless too," Sept. 18) in this newspaper takes up cudgels for - are you ready? - private property rights, even if those are just the politically correct property rights of the homeless denizens of skid row. Make no mistake, I am with Dean Chemerinski on that...
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