Posted on 07/29/2003 6:15:50 AM PDT by shhrubbery!
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:49:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Richard Kreimer, a former homeless man who cashed checks worth $230,000 after settling lawsuits against Morristown police and the Joint Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township during the 1990s, has filed another suit that claims a local Chinese restaurant refused to serve him on July 11.
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This is the "homeless" guy who was asked by Morristown (NJ) Public Library librarians to leave the premises. Kreimer had been following other library patrons around, staring hostilely at them, and emitting...uh, body odors. Kreimer sued the library.
Judge H. Lee Sarokin, a wealthy judge who lived in an exclusive, gated community, ruled in Kreimer's favor, stating:
"the cause of our revulsion may be of our own making. If we wish to shield our eyes and noses from the homeless, we should revoke our condition and not their library cards."
Bill Clinton was so impressed with Sarokin's reasoning that he appointed Sarokin to the Third District Court of Appeals. --Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show 7/31/96
Also, I forgot: H. Lee Sarokin is the judge who freed Rubin "Hurricane" Carter back in 1985.
Clinton undoubtedly admired him for that decision too.
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