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GLENDALE, Calif. - A federal judge struck down a city law that bars day laborers from soliciting work at curbsides, an advocacy group said Tuesday. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund sued the city last year on behalf of a group of laborers on claims that the ban violated their constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge S. James Otero agreed, ruling Monday that the ban currently against solicitation from streets and curbs could be misinterpreted as also a ban from sidewalks. "The vagueness of the ordinance is likely to chill permissible speech," he wrote in an 11-page judgment. Glendale...

One Reporter's Opinion - The Systematic Dismantling of America George Putnam Friday, Dec. 3, 2004 It is this reporter's opinion that we are witnessing a form of legal blackmail - legal terrorism - in our own court system. Anti-American groups like La Raza, the Mexican American Legal Defense Education Fund (MALDEF), the League of Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and MEChA - aided and abetted by the ACLU - are battling us on U.S. soil, screaming racism if anyone protests illegal migration and promoting their agenda "Reconquista of Aztlan," and are attempting to tear our country apart using our very own...