The "most basic reading" of the Constitution prohibits Los Angeles from
unreasonably seizing and destroying the personal property of homeless
residents, the 9th Circuit ruled Wednesday.
Nine homeless
residents of Skid Row sued the city for violations of their Fourth and
14th Amendment rights after police confiscated the property they left on
the sidewalk. They say their legal papers, family pictures and other
possessions were immediately destroyed.
Skid Row in downtown Los
Angeles is home to one of the nation's largest homeless populations.
The men and women who dwell there say they left their property
unattended but not abandoned while eating, showering or using the
bathroom.
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Showing posts with label 14th Amendment. Show all posts
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Scalia: Women Don't Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination
WASHINGTON -- The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not protect against discrimination on the basis of gender or sexual orientation, according to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
In a newly published interview in the legal magazine California Lawyer, Scalia said that while the Constitution does not disallow the passage of legislation outlawing such discrimination, it doesn't itself outlaw that behavior:
In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don't think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex discrimination, or certainly not to sexual orientation. So does that mean that we've gone off in error by applying the 14th Amendment to both?
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Justices debate Chicago handgun ban
Chicago, Illinois, community activist Otis McDonald says he wants a handgun to protect him and his family.
Washington (CNN) -- Chicago's 28-year-old strict ban on handgun ownership appeared in trouble Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court in a potentially far-reaching case over the ability of state and local governments to enforce limits on weapons.
A conservative majority seemed ready to say the U.S. Constitution gives individuals greater power than states -- or at least equal power -- as far as possessing certain firearms for self-protection.
The only question was how far the court would apply competing parts of the 14th Amendment to preserve some "reasonable" gun control measures in place nationwide.
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