Appeals Court Slaps L.A. Over Arrests of Homeless

1 posted on 04/14/2006 4:47:30 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Judge Wardlaw, Clinton appointee, 1995
http://air.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2501

2 posted on 04/14/2006 4:48:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)

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3 posted on 04/14/2006 4:50:45 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)

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4 posted on 04/14/2006 4:51:04 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Kooks For Kinky)

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Great. The city has no control over urban outdoorsmen who violate the private property rights of businesses by obstructing doorways and using a business entrance as an alternative to a public toilet.

5 posted on 04/14/2006 4:51:11 PM PDT by Myrddin

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6 posted on 04/14/2006 4:52:41 PM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)

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She's Hispanic, according to the bio?!

7 posted on 04/14/2006 4:52:52 PM PDT by Regulator

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Move them all in with the 9th Circus.

8 posted on 04/14/2006 4:54:25 PM PDT by SmithL (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)

Thanks that was one of my first thoughts, too, that or the aclu lawyers.

9 posted on 04/14/2006 4:55:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)

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Perhaps Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw has room at her house for the overflow.... Maybe the judge will free a homeless mugger because there was not enough federal funds to go around that day.

10 posted on 04/14/2006 4:57:45 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup

To: NormsRevenge

Yes, it's so much more humane to let these people pass out on the sidewalk than it is to incarcerate them. Very sound thinking at work there. Amazing how many judges have no concept of the real world.

11 posted on 04/14/2006 4:58:02 PM PDT by speedy

To: NormsRevenge

Ninth circus members studying law at school

12 posted on 04/14/2006 5:00:03 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")

To: razorback-bert

Anyone surprised?

Nah!! It's right there in the Penumbra of the 8th Amendment between excessive bail and unusual punishment. "The right to sleep on the streets shall not be abridged!!"

Don't you see it?

13 posted on 04/14/2006 5:01:36 PM PDT by PISANO (We will not tire......We will not falter.......We will NOT FAIL!!! .........GW Bush [Oct 2001])

Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic

Maybe she ate a burrito as a child.

14 posted on 04/14/2006 5:05:29 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup

To: NormsRevenge

In other homeless news, we have this,

Project hooks up homeless with voice mail accounts

15 posted on 04/14/2006 5:05:49 PM PDT by csvset

To: NormsRevenge

The U.S. _nutty9th Circuit Court of Appeals. This is the most reversed court and they should be.

16 posted on 04/14/2006 5:09:23 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182

To: operation clinton cleanup

Hispanic? Definitely not Korean...

17 posted on 04/14/2006 5:10:08 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup

Yes, it's so much more humane to let these people pass out on the sidewalk than it is to incarcerate them. Very sound thinking at work there. Amazing how many judges have no concept of the real world.

Umm, the story didn't mention that these people are substance abusers, just homeless. I certainly agree that the ACLU was inhumane in advocating that people who are mentally ill to the point of being unable to properly care for themselves should be out on the streets, for ex. But do you think that all people who are homeless should be in jail?

As has been pointed out in a recent NY Times story, a suburb of Seattle has made it illegal for people to sleep in their cars, instituting a $1,000 fine and 90 days in jail. When they get out, they will not be able to bail their cars out of impound, so they'll be out on the street with only the clothes on their backs.

And here in the DC area:

...A family would need to be making over $48,000 a year to afford the median rent for a two-bedroom apartment, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Furthermore, as data reported in December 2004 by Falls Church News-Press reporter Darien Bates indicate, Fairfax County’s “low” poverty rate still leaves “over 43,000 people…surviving on less than half of what they would need to afford their housing.” Paying a larger income percentage on rent, many try to sneak by without medical insurance. Thus, treatable health problems are allowed to worsen, leaving many low-income people one illness or accident away from the economic brink.

Sarah Hoover, also interviewed on that PBS episode, was a pretty, healthy-looking young woman who suffered a “medical emergency” that quickly left her unemployed and living at a shelter. She explains, “There was kind of a—a mocking, I guess, in a way, with my situation. ‘What are you doing here?’ And, you know, ‘How could you come to this situation?’ It was hard to find a bond with people, because I didn’t really fit a certain mold, I guess, that a lot of people were used to seeing...”

What's supposed to happen to these people? Oh, I know, when their mid-level white collar jobs have been exported to Pakistan they're supposed to take the jobs that cannot be exported [i.e. menial, low-paying] -- but they can't. They've been taken by illegal immigrants who will accept wages that have been depressed by a labor surplus in the service sector.

Do you think all of the homeless are as they appear on an old Baretta episode? Who is it with no concept of the real world here?

18 posted on 04/14/2006 5:20:16 PM PDT by walford (http://the-big-pic.org)

To: operation clinton cleanup

Maybe she ate a burrito as a child

That's probably all it takes to qualify as a victim to be given preferences

19 posted on 04/14/2006 5:23:39 PM PDT by Regulator

To: NormsRevenge

Judge Wardlaw is yet another multi-millionaire appointed by the Clinton Administration to represent us regular folks.

20 posted on 04/14/2006 5:31:25 PM PDT by Hoodat ( Silly Dems, AYBABTU.)

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