U.S. Supreme Court
Jun. 25, 2013
Constitutional protections for the belongings of homeless people, affirmed last year by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, will stand as the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the decision.
By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Constitutional protections for the belongings of homeless people, affirmed last year by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, will stand as the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the decision.
The circuit ruled that Los Angeles city workers were wrong to confiscate and summarily destroy unattended but unabandoned property left on Skid Row sidewalks. The long-running legal battle began as early as 1989 between cit...
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