The parties dispute the appropriate standard of review. Jones's theory (embraced by the majority) is that the City's failure to supply adequate shelter caused the six persons who pursue this action to commit the prohibited act, that is, the act of sleeping, sitting or lying on the streets. 2145 (Fortas, J., dissenting); the Eighth Amendment prohibits the City from punishing involuntary sitting, lying, or sleeping on public sidewalks that is an unavoidable consequence of being human and homeless without shelter in the City of Los Angeles. Accordingly, he seeks to bring the ordinance in line with less draconian ordinances in other cities by barring its enforcement in Skid Row during nighttime hours. We conclude that Appellants have standing to bring this action. 674, 27 L.Ed.2d 701 (1971) (Brennan, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part) (noting prior aggressive prosecution under an allegedly unconstitutional law as a factor for finding sufficient controversy for declaratory relief). 22 BC536272); Bransford v City of Los Angeles (Case No. See id. In this Court counsel for the State recognized that narcotic addiction is an illness. At FindLaw.com, we pride ourselves on being the number one source of free legal information and resources on the web. v. City of Los Angeles, et al.was filed by Ohio Plaintiffs had been ticketed for violating the ordinance but none had been convicted. Chief Bratton has promised, they will be arrested, prosecuted, and put in jail repeatedly, if necessary. 2A(S)-Jones v. City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Superior Court Case He maintains that the gap between the number of homeless persons in Los Angeles, and the number of available shelter beds, leaves thousands without shelter every night. See Joyce, 846 F.Supp. Upon his release, Purrie returned to the corner where he had been sleeping on the night of his arrest to find that all the belongings he had left behind, including blankets, clothes, cooking utensils, a hygiene kit, and other personal effects, were gone. 2145, 20 L.Ed.2d 1254 (1968), the successor case to Robinson, the Court affirmed a conviction for being found in a state of intoxication in a public place in violation of state law. 2145 (Marshall, J., plurality)). Therefore, the record does not support the relief sought, even under Justice White's concurrence in Powell. TermsPrivacyDisclaimerCookiesDo Not Sell My Information, Begin typing to search, use arrow keys to navigate, use enter to select, Stay up-to-date with FindLaw's newsletter for legal professionals. 1326 impermissibly punished him for the status of being found in the United States. On February 19, 2003, Appellants filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Central District of California pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Cf. at 579, 99 S.Ct. We hold only that, just as the Eighth Amendment prohibits the infliction of criminal punishment on an individual for being a drug addict, Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660, 667, 82 S.Ct. Wholly apart from whatever substantive limits the Eighth Amendment may impose on what can be made criminal and punished as such, the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause places no limits on the state's ability to arrest. The plurality in Powell interpreted Robinson this way, and in a view that is binding on us now, we previously adopted the plurality's position as controlling by stating in Ayala that [t]he Supreme Court has subsequently limited the applicability of Robinson to crimes that do not involve an actus reus. Ayala, 35 F.3d at 426 (citing Powell, 392 U.S. at 533, 88 S.Ct. 11302(a) (2000). In any event, there is a difference between the protection afforded by the Eighth Amendment, and protection afforded by the Fourteenth. Moreover, the preliminary injunction plaintiffs sought in Joyce was so broad as to enjoin enforcement of prohibitions on camping or lodging in public parks and on life-sustaining activities such as sleeping, sitting or remaining in a public place, which might also include such antisocial conduct as public urination and aggressive panhandling. As no one has made that showing, the claimants both lack standing and lose on the merits. 2145 (White, J., concurring in the judgment). This may begin well before conviction: at arrest, see, e.g., McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332, 343-44, 63 S.Ct. at 552-53, 88 S.Ct. Customers Metallic Fence Post Grounding. Id. Id. 846 F.Supp. They use their General Relief payments to stay in motels for part of every month and try to stay in shelters when their money runs out. Next and more significantly, the dissenters addressed the involuntariness of Powell's behavior, noting that Powell had an uncontrollable compulsion to drink to the point of intoxication; and that, once intoxicated, he could not prevent himself from appearing in public places. Id. Covering fifty city blocks immediately east of downtown Los Angeles, Skid Row is bordered by Third Street to the north, Seventh Street to the south, Alameda Street to the east, and Main Street to the west. The claims period is now closed for all class members with the exception of those class members who have received a notification letter advising that their account has a pending field work investigation. We recognized that this issue was raised in Powell but no majority opinion emerged; however, we declined to decide it because Kidder's guilty plea waived any argument that his actions were involuntary.2 Id. 48939. The City asserts that Appellants have not adequately demonstrated that they have been convicted and/or are likely to be convicted in the future under section 41.18(d). In the absence of any indication that the enormous gap between the number of available beds and the number of homeless individuals in Los Angeles generally and Skid Row in particular has closed, Appellants are certain to continue sitting, lying, and sleeping in public thoroughfares and, as a result, will suffer direct and irreparable injury from enforcement of section 41.18(d). Protection against deprivations of life, liberty and property without due process is, of course, the role of the Fourteenth Amendment, not the Eighth. I also disagree with the majority's conclusion that all that is required for standing is some direct injury-for example, a deprivation of property, such as a fine, or liberty, such as an arrest-based on the plaintiff's violation of the statute, maj. op. For example, Las Vegas prohibits standing or lying in a public way only when it obstructs pedestrian or vehicular traffic. Id. Please be advised that the claim filing deadline in the Jones v. The City of Los Angeles (LADWP) class action settlement, was June 5, 2017 . Homeless Servs. Justice White and the Powell dissenters shared a common view of the importance of involuntariness to the Eighth Amendment inquiry. The first is the distinction between pure status-the state of being-and pure conduct-the act of doing. We understood his contention to be that his involvement was caused by mental illness, so to imprison him for drug dealing was tantamount to punishing him for being mentally ill. Id. They seek a permanent injunction against the City of Los Angeles and L.A.P.D. When they lack money for a motel room, they take the bus to a shelter in South Los Angeles. Kartonska ambalaa. That being an impossibility, by criminalizing sitting, lying, and sleeping, the City is in fact criminalizing Appellants' status as homeless individuals. Wait-lists for public housing and for housing assistance vouchers in Los Angeles are three- to ten-years long. 592, 98 L.Ed.2d 686 (1988); id. 1401. 2145. Joyce, however, was based on a very different factual underpinning than is present here. But a constitutional violation cannot turn on refusal to employ a defense that prevents conviction. The majority relies on the dissenting opinions and dicta in the concurring opinion in Powell (which involved a conviction for public drunkenness of an alcoholic who was to some degree compelled to drink), but not even the Powell dissent would go so far as to hold that conduct which is closely related to status may not constitutionally be punished unless the conduct is a characteristic and involuntary part of the pattern of the [status] as it afflicts the particular individual. As the Eighth Amendment does not forbid arrests, the injunction sought by Jones extends beyond what would be necessary to provide complete relief even if convictions under the ordinance were unconstitutional. 2145. 1401. At the time, according to the lawsuit, Jones was in his early 20s, living in a one-bedroom apartment in Van Nuys, without a washer, dryer, dishwasher or central air conditioning. at 1128 (quoting 430 U.S. at 687, 97 S.Ct. 2013) (en banc). Edward Jones, Patricia Vinson, George Vinson, Thomas Cash, Stanley Barger, and Robert Lee Purrie (Appellants) are homeless individuals who live on the streets of Los Angeles's Skid Row district. As a result of the expansive reach of section 41.18(d), the extreme lack of available shelter in Los Angeles, and the large homeless population, thousands of people violate the Los Angeles ordinance every day and night, and many are arrested, losing what few possessions they may have.2 Appellants are among them. As he explained: Robinson so viewed brings this Court but a very small way into the substantive criminal law. Other cities include as a required element sitting, lying, or sleeping in clearly defined and limited zones. Eric Jones Storekeeper B at City of Los Angeles - LADWP Los Angeles, California, United States 500+ connections 19516. That Appellants may obtain shelter on some nights and may eventually escape from homelessness does not render their status at the time of arrest any less worthy of protection than a drug addict's or an alcoholic's. "Jones" refers to a lawsuit titled Antwon Jones vs. City of Los Angeles, which was confirmed in a court investigation last year to have been a, "sham lawsuit," in which the City. (C)a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings. 608, 87 L.Ed. Still others contain safe harbor provisions such as limiting the hours of enforcement. Having failed to assert its objections before the district court, the City has waived its objections as to the authenticity of the dispositions. at 567, 88 S.Ct. Robert Lee Purrie has tried to find shelter in Skid Row and been told that there are no beds available. See id. Our holding is a limited one. Data Sheet for Commercial Service Pedestals. 2. 1660 (standing requires a direct injury). This is not the case with a homeless person who sometimes has shelter and sometimes doesn't. Thus, it cannot be said that any of the six will be subject to punishment for purposes of the Eighth Amendment on account of any involuntary condition. 2145. ANNUAL SALARY$102,541 to $149,939 and $114,631 to $167,624NOTES:1. at 64. He was arrested for sleeping on the street and also on an outstanding warrant. Justice White read Robinson to stand for the principle that it cannot be a crime to have an irresistible compulsion to use narcotics, id. Appellants seek limited injunctive relief from enforcement of the ordinance during nighttime hours, i.e., between 9:00 p.m. and 6:30 a.m., or at any time against the temporarily infirm or permanently disabled. Ingraham rests on the distinction between state action inside and outside the criminal process, id. at 500, 94 S.Ct. Because shelters separate men and women, and Janet's disabilities require Edward to care for her, the Joneses are forced to sleep on the streets every month after their General Relief monies run out. Jones relies heavily on mass arrests of homeless people on Skid Row. Auth., supra, at 2-10. Finally, Eighth Amendment protections apply to those who are convicted, not to those who are arrested. They were cited on one of these occasions, but not arrested or convicted, for violating LAMC 41.18(d). 2145 (White, J., concurring in the judgment). of Mayors, A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities 2002 at 312 (indicating that people remain homeless an average of six months in survey cities).4 In addition, the justices in Powell who were troubled by the statute at issue there, which made it a crime to be found intoxicated in public, thought it was problematic because a chronic alcoholic has a compulsion to drink wherever he is. His hook apparently contacted the wires and the resulting electric shock dislodged him from the ladder. Id. 2145 (Marshall, J., plurality opinion). Six years after its decision in Robinson, the Supreme Court considered the case of Leroy Powell, who had been charged with violating a Texas statute making it a crime to get drunk or be found in a state of intoxication in any public place. Powell, 392 U.S. at 517, 88 S.Ct. Applying Robinson to the facts of Powell's case, the dissenters first described the predicate for Powell's conviction as the mere condition of being intoxicated in public rather than any acts, such as getting drunk and appearing in public. BC577267, which alleges that customers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (the "LADWP") were over-billed or experienced other billing errors that were caused by, and are Jones argues that he and other homeless people are not willing or able to pursue such a defense because the costs of pleading guilty are so low and the risks and challenges of pleading innocent are substantial. We disagree with the analysis of Robinson and Powell conducted by both the district court in Joyce and the district court in the case at bar. According to Justice White, if [Robinson] was convicted for being an addict who had lost his power of self-control, I would have other thoughts about this case. Id. Existing litigation in the following matter: ITEM NO. For decades Skid Row has been home for the down and out, the drifters, the unemployed, and the chronic alcoholic[s] of Los Angeles. From this it followed to Justice White that the statute under which Powell was convicted should not be applied to a chronic alcoholic who has a compulsion to drink and nowhere but a public place in which to do so. 1865. Ingraham addressed a claim that the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause bars the use of disciplinary corporal punishment in public schools. The majority's analysis of the substantive component of the Eighth Amendment blurs the two. The City and the dissent apparently believe that Appellants can avoid sitting, lying, and sleeping for days, weeks, or months at a time to comply with the City's ordinance, as if human beings could remain in perpetual motion. 2145, 20 L.Ed.2d 1254 (No. 927, 931 (1969) ( [T]he dissent comes closer to speaking for a majority of the Court than does the plurality opinion.). Joyce was a class action in which the plaintiffs alleged injuries to individuals in the putative class that included convictions of camping-related offenses, and neither Church v. City of Huntsville, 30 F.3d 1332, 1339 (11th Cir.1994), nor Pottinger v. City of Miami, 810 F.Supp. LADWP Billing Settlement Administrator P.O. Thus the City's argument that Appellants lack standing because a conviction is required fails on the facts as well as the law. Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) 41.18(d) does not punish people simply because they are homeless. Appellants have demonstrated both past injuries and a real and immediate threat of future injury: namely, they have been and are likely to be fined, arrested, incarcerated, prosecuted, and/or convicted for involuntarily violating section 41.18(d) at night in Skid Row. At 5:00 a.m. on December 24, 2002, Barger was sleeping on the sidewalk at Sixth and Towne when L.A.P.D. A basic midwestern personal injury attorney, Landskroner one day ended up in Los Angeles, as a consumer rights guy, working on the LADWP water billing case. 2145 (White, J., concurring in the judgment); id. We cannot but consider the statute before us as of the same category. Discussion held - action taken but not a final action that is reportable. Id. officers cited him. Accordingly, I part company with the majority's expansive construction of the substantive limits on criminality. 1401 (White, J., dissenting) (explaining that the Court's reasoning depends on the distinction between criminal and noncriminal punishment). This is an action to enjoin the enforcement of a zoning ordinance of the City of Los Angeles. Yet this does not give us license to expand the narrow limits that, in a rare type of case, the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment places on substantive criminal law. at 568 n. 31, 88 S.Ct. 843 (N.D.Cal.1994), the district court held that enforcement of the ordinance does not violate the Eighth Amendment because it penalizes conduct, not status. The attack on LAMC 41.18(d) is not facial; it is as applied to Jones and those who join him in this suit. Edward Jones's wife, Janet, suffers serious physical and mental afflictions. However, as five Justices would later make clear in Powell, Robinson also supports the principle that the state cannot punish a person for certain conditions, either arising from his own acts or contracted involuntarily, or acts that he is powerless to avoid. at 109 (estimating annualized growth of ten percent in Los Angeles's homeless population in the years up to and including 2003), the availability of low-income housing in Skid Row has shrunk, according to the declaration of Alice Callaghan, director of a Skid Row community center and board member of the Skid Row Housing Trust. It is unclear on what basis the dissent asserts that this report does not indicate that Los Angeles was among the cities surveyed, or that it is the only study in the record. Throughout the report, including on page 96 and on the final page, Los Angeles is named as one of the twenty-five surveyed cities. at 1136. The City could not expressly criminalize the status of homelessness by making it a crime to be homeless without violating the Eighth Amendment, nor can it criminalize acts that are an integral aspect of that status. FindLaw.com Free, trusted legal information for consumers and legal professionals, SuperLawyers.com Directory of U.S. attorneys with the exclusive Super Lawyers rating, Abogado.com The #1 Spanish-language legal website for consumers, LawInfo.com Nationwide attorney directory and legal consumer resources. See The U.S. Conference of Mayors, A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities 101, 105 (2002) [hereinafter Homelessness Report];1 L.A. Housing Crisis Task Force, supra, at 7. A criminal defendant may assert a necessity defense if he has committed an offense to prevent an imminent harm that he could not have otherwise prevented. is not one which punishes a person for the use of narcotics, for their purchase, sale or possession, or for antisocial or disorderly behavior resulting from their administration. I would affirm. Neither of the two 1969 district court opinions cited by the majority, maj. op. Fontaine, et al. 16, 1963.] 752, 70 L.Ed.2d 700 (1982) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). These cases establish that the state may not make it an offense to be idle, indigent, or homeless in public places. According to the declaration of Michael Alvidrez, a manager of single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotels in Skid Row owned by the Skid Row Housing Trust, since the mid-1970s Los Angeles has chosen to centralize homeless services in Skid Row. Powell, 392 U.S. at 533, 88 S.Ct. Purrie was also ordered to stay away from the location of his arrest. 2979, 77 L.Ed.2d 605 (1983) (holding that the Eighth Amendment does not apply to a claim involving deliberate indifference by government officials to the medical needs of an injured suspect before his arrest). Citing Robinson as an example of the rare type of case in which the clause has been used to limit what may be made criminal, we held that the statute at issue in Ritter did not come with the purview of this unusual sort of case. Id. Compare Powell, 392 U.S. at 553, 88 S.Ct. See Honig v. Doe, 484 U.S. 305, 318 & n. 6, 108 S.Ct. Appellants abandoned their second claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1417, 8 L.Ed.2d 758 (1962); or for involuntary public drunkenness that is an unavoidable consequence of being a chronic alcoholic without a home, Powell, 392 U.S. at 551, 88 S.Ct. Finally, the Court commented on the purpose of the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause, and on Robinson, in Ingraham v. Wright, 430 U.S. 651, 97 S.Ct. His total monthly income consists of food stamps and $221 in welfare payments. Indeed, the court [ 74 Cal. Other cities' ordinances similarly directed at the homeless provide ways to avoid criminalizing the status of homelessness by making an element of the crime some conduct in combination with sitting, lying, or sleeping in a state of homelessness. Relying on Robinson, he argued that the found in provision of 28 U.S.C. See Ingraham, 430 U.S. at 667, 97 S.Ct. Box 404007 Louisville, KY 40233-4007 1-877-306-5238 admin@LACityTransferSettlement.com Fax: 866-715-4512 Class Counsel Christopher P. Ridout ZIMMERMAN REED LLP Robert P. Ahdoot AHDOOT & WOLFSON PC Eric J. Benink KRAUSE KALFAYAN BENINK & SLAVENS LLP Robinson does not apply to criminalization of conduct. In fact, in both cases the court struck down the statute at issue for criminalizing status, not conduct, explicitly recognizing that there would have been no trouble had the statutes instead criminalized conduct. This led to a search that uncovered drugs, and to a motion to suppress that challenged the constitutionality of a federal statute making it a criminal offense for documented aliens to fail to carry documents. The dissenters themselves undermine their proposed distinction by suggesting that criminalizing involuntary acts that typically flow from the disease of chronic alcoholism would violate the Eighth Amendment, as well as by stating that [i]f an alcoholic should be convicted for criminal conduct which is not a characteristic and involuntary part of the pattern of the disease as it afflicts him, nothing herein would prevent his punishment. Id. Channel 35 is the City's official cable channel which produces Emmy award winning shows geared for the citizens of L.A. City of Los Angeles. No evidence in the record supports these assertions. at 550 n. 2, 88 S.Ct. See, e.g., Daniel Flaming, et al., Homeless in LA: Final Research Report for the 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness in Los Angeles County at 72 (Sept.2004) (finding that in a given year in Los Angeles less than ten percent of the homeless population remained homeless for more than six months), available at http://www.bringlahome.org/docs/HILA-Final.PDF. This argument is legally, factually, and realistically untenable.3. at 662-63, 82 S.Ct. The City asserts for the first time on appeal that the homeless persons who pursue this Eighth Amendment action lack standing because they were never convicted of violating the ordinance. 1417. Cara Mia DiMassa & Richard Winton, Dumping of Homeless Suspected Downtown, L.A. Times, Sept. 23, 2005, at A1. United States v. City of Tacoma, 332 F.3d 574, 578 (9th Cir.2003). Charlie LeDuff, In Los Angeles, Skid Row Resists an Upgrade, N.Y. Times, July 15, 2003, at A1. at 444-45. 2145 (Marshall, J., plurality opinion) (quoting Tex. That provision protects individuals convicted of crimes from punishment that is cruel and unusual. Although the majority acknowledges that homelessness is neither a disease nor an innate or immutable characteristic, maj. op. at 1332. 669. At 6:30 a.m. on November 20, 2002, Edward and Janet Jones were sleeping on the sidewalk at the corner of Industrial and Alameda Streets when the L.A.P.D. LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has expanded its customer bill pay options by accepting credit card payments at all of its 15 Customer Service Centers (CSCs) starting today. Id. She was close to an electrolier consisting of a cast iron base about three feet high and a lamp post with cross arms supporting five large light globes. However, Justice White did not believe the conviction offended the Constitution because Powell made no showing that he was unable to stay off the streets on the night he was arrested. He states he was sentenced to time served, but does not say on which charge. 592 (distinguishing, inter alia, Lyons, 461 U.S. at 105-06, 103 S.Ct. Id. 1983, alleging violations of a Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process right to treatment for chronic illnesses while in police custody, in the district court. Moreover, the practical realities of homelessness make the necessity defense a false promise for those charged with violating section 41.18(d). The Supreme Court reversed Robinson's conviction, reasoning: It is unlikely that any State at this moment in history would attempt to make it a criminal offense for a person to be mentally ill, or a leper, or to be afflicted with a venereal disease [I]n the light of contemporary human knowledge, a law which made a criminal offense of such a disease would doubtless be universally thought to be an infliction of cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. See, e.g., Powell, 392 U.S. at 533, 88 S.Ct. 669, 38 L.Ed.2d 674 (1974). at 667, 97 S.Ct. In his separate opinion, Justice White rejected the plurality's proposed status-conduct distinction, finding it similar to forbidding criminal conviction for being sick with flu or epilepsy but permitting punishment for running a fever or having a convulsion. Id. The majority sees it differently, concluding that the Eighth Amendment forbids the City of Los Angeles from enforcing an ordinance which makes it unlawful to sit, sleep, or lie on sidewalks. In Robinson, Justice White found no Eighth Amendment violation for two reasons: First, because he did not consider [Robinson's] conviction to be a punishment for having an illness or for simply being in some status or condition, but rather a conviction for the regular, repeated or habitual use of narcotics immediately prior to his arrest, Robinson, 370 U.S. at 686, 82 S.Ct. See O'Shea, 414 U.S. at 496, 94 S.Ct. See Joyce, 846 F.Supp. at 1135. Six homeless individuals, unable to obtain shelter on the night each was cited or arrested, filed this Eighth Amendment challenge to the enforcement of a City of Los Angeles ordinance that criminalizes sitting, lying, or sleeping on public streets and sidewalks at all times and in all places within Los Angeles's city limits. See, e.g., Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660, 666, 82 S.Ct. Many are able to escape it altogether. 2145 (Fortas, J., dissenting), and stated that Powell's conviction should be reversed because his public drunkenness was involuntary, id. Beginning around the end of the nineteenth century, the area now known as Los Angeles's Skid Row became home to a transient population of seasonal laborers as residential hotels began to develop. For this he relies on Pottinger v. City of Miami, 810 F.Supp. 2145 (White, J., concurring in the judgment) ([N]othing in the record indicates that [Powell] could not have done his drinking in private Powell had a home and wife, and if there were reasons why he had to drink in public or be drunk there, they do not appear in the record.), with id. 1861 (Stevens, J., dissenting) (Nor is this an Eighth Amendment Case. Justice White ended up concurring in the result because Powell made no showing that he was unable to stay off the streets on the night in question. 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