Skid Row is a place of desperate poverty, drug use, and crime, where Porta-Potties serve as sleeping quarters and houses of prostitution. Apr. We also note that in the absence of any agreement between Justice White and the plurality on the meaning of Robinson and the commands of the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause, the precedential value of the Powell plurality opinion is limited to its precise facts. Jones relies on Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660, 82 S.Ct. 669 (noting that plaintiffs may have had standing had they alleged that the laws under which they feared prosecution in the future were unconstitutional); Perez v. Ledesma, 401 U.S. 82, 101-02, 91 S.Ct. However, that language is relevant only to the first two of the three circumscriptions on the criminal process identified by the Ingraham Court: limits on the kind and proportionality of punishment permissible postconviction. We are not confronted here with a facial challenge to a statute, cf. 592, 98 L.Ed.2d 686 (1988); id. 2145 (Fortas, J., dissenting). Jones v. City of Los Angeles (1979) Annotate this Case [Civ. See L.A. These cases establish that the state may not make it an offense to be idle, indigent, or homeless in public places. Accordingly, I part company with the majority's expansive construction of the substantive limits on criminality. Dog Agility Training At It's Finest. 3. The second is the distinction between an involuntary act or condition and a voluntary one. The loss of Appellants' possessions when they are arrested and held in custody is particularly injurious because they have so few resources and may find that everything they own has disappeared by the time they return to the street. 2145, 20 L.Ed.2d 1254 (1968), when it held that the only relevant inquiry is whether the ordinance at issue punishes status as opposed to conduct, and that homelessness is not a constitutionally cognizable status. Editing by Bruce Goldman. 2145 (Fortas, J., dissenting); see also Robert L. Misner, The New Attempt Laws: Unsuspected Threat to the Fourth Amendment, 33 Stan. at 550 n. 2, 88 S.Ct. The first is the distinction between pure status-the state of being-and pure conduct-the act of doing. Other courts likewise appear to have reached the merits of similar suits where homeless plaintiffs had not suffered convictions. It targets conduct-sitting, lying or sleeping on city sidewalks-that can be committed by those with homes as well as those without. 1417. The last mentioned case does not uphold respondent's contention. Here, there is no evidence of Eighth Amendment harm to any of the six homeless persons who prosecute this action and equitable relief cannot be based on alleged injuries to others. 1401, not on any distinction between criminal convictions and preconviction law enforcement measures such as arrest, jailing, and prosecution. The skid row area of Los Angeles contains the largest number of homeless persons in the United States. Id. E.g., United States v. Arellano-Rivera, 244 F.3d 1119, 1125 (9th Cir.2001). 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. Following Robinson's holding that the state cannot criminalize pure status, and the agreement of five Justices in Powell that the state cannot criminalize certain involuntary conduct, there are two considerations relevant to defining the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause's limits on the state's power to criminalize. Because the conclusion that certain involuntary acts could not be criminalized was not dicta, see United States v. Johnson, 256 F.3d 895, 915, 914-16 (9th Cir.2001) (en banc) (Kozinski, J., concurring) (narrowly defining dicta as a statement [that] is made casually and without analysis, uttered in passing without due consideration of the alternatives, or merely a prelude to another legal issue that commands the court's full attention), we adopt this interpretation of Robinson and the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause as persuasive authority. Cf. The total he His average. However, the Eighth Amendment's protections d[o] not attach until after conviction and sentence. Graham, 490 U.S. at 392 n. 6, 109 S.Ct. 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. at 847 (alterations and omissions in original). 342-5397, Customer Service - 800 DIAL DWP Service/Intake (800) 342-5397, Customer Service - 800 Dial DWP Service/Intake (800) 342-5397, Electric . 2145. Annual salary is at the start of the pay range. The City challenges Appellants' standing for the first time on appeal. v. City of Los Angeles et al., Case No. at 521, 88 S.Ct. This would run afoul of Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 91 S.Ct. See In re Eichorn, 69 Cal.App.4th 382, 389-91, 81 Cal.Rptr.2d 535 (1998). evidence sufficient to establish that defendant violated the law (1) to prevent a significant evil, (2) with no adequate alternative, (3) without creating a greater danger than the one avoided, (4) with a good faith belief in the necessity, (5) with such belief being objectively reasonable, and (6) under circumstances in which he did not substantially contribute to the emergency. 1401 (citations omitted). Being homeless, however, is a transitory state. 897, 899 n. 2, 908 (D.Colo.1969) (three-judge court); see also Wheeler v. Goodman, 306 F.Supp. Based on the record adduced in that case, it found that being homeless is rarely a choice; it also found that the homeless plaintiffs lacked any place where they could lawfully be and had no realistic choice but to live in public places because of the unavailability of low-income housing or alternative shelter. Edward takes care of her, which limits his ability to find full-time work, though he has held various minimum wage jobs. As Jones puts it, so long as there are more homeless people than shelter beds, the nightly search for shelter will remain a zero-sum game in which many of the homeless, through no fault of their own, will end up breaking the law. By enforcing the ordinance, Jones contends, the City subjects homeless persons to a cycle of citation, arrest, and punishment for the involuntary and harmless conduct of sitting or lying in the street. This position is consistent with that of the Powell dissenters, who quoted and agreed with Justice White's standard, see id. There is no record of conviction. A statute such as the one challenged in this case is constitutional insofar as it authorizes a police officer to arrest any seriously intoxicated person when he is encountered in a public place. at 567, 88 S.Ct. 1401, 51 L.Ed.2d 711 (1977). According to Callaghan's declaration, at night in Skid Row, SRO hotels, shelters, and other temporary or transitional housing are the only alternatives to sleeping on the street; during the day, two small parks are open to the public. Even if Appellants' past volitional acts contributed to their current need to sit, lie, and sleep on public sidewalks at night, those acts are not sufficiently proximate to the conduct at issue here for the imposition of penal sanctions to be permissible. For many, including the homeless persons who pursue this action, it is a status that fluctuates on a daily basis and can change depending upon income and opportunities for shelter. However, there is no showing in this case that shelter was unavailable on the night that any of the six was apprehended. 1401). Transformer Pad Requirements. It's that simple.. Id. Minimum Overall Spatial Clearances For Precast . He states he was sentenced to time served, but does not say on which charge. According to a federal search warrant excerpt reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the FBI agents who raided City Hall and the DWP on Monday morning were looking for DWP contracts with. The Clause's first two protections govern the particulars of criminal punishment, what kind and how much, covering only those who have been convicted of a criminal violation and face punitive sanctions. at 1137, in support of the proposition that the Eighth Amendment forbids criminalizing conduct derivative of status, Goldman v. Knecht, 295 F.Supp. at 534-35, 88 S.Ct. officers cited him. 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. It contends that Appellants have suffered a constitutionally cognizable harm only if they have been convicted and/or face an imminent threat of future conviction. 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. 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. Id. He came in last minute, introduced over email to the plaintiff who was suing LADWP, Antwon Jones. 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. 2019 Commercial Service Construction Standards. No shelter permits a childless couple to stay together. 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. As Justice White's concurrence in Powell explains: I do not question the power of the State to remove a helplessly intoxicated person from a public street, although against his will, and to hold him until he has regained his powers. 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. 344, 350 (N.D.Tex.1994), rev'd on standing grounds, 61 F.3d 442. L.A.P.D. Chief Bratton has promised, they will be arrested, prosecuted, and put in jail repeatedly, if necessary. 17 (prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment). Id. Lyons, 461 U.S. at 101-02, 103 S.Ct. 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. 20 Notice is hereby given to all parties in the case and action of Jones v. City of. It is not a law which even purports to provide or require medical treatment. 23 of Water & Power (Case No. The result, in City officials' own words, is that [t]he gap between the homeless population needing a shelter bed and the inventory of shelter beds is severely large. Homelessness Report, supra, at 80. at 568 n. 31, 88 S.Ct. at 857-58. Look over the claim form to see if you are eligible. 370 U.S. at 666, 82 S.Ct. Auth., Los Angeles Continuum of Care, Exhibit 1 Narrative, at 2-17 (2001); see also Patrick Burns et al., Econ. In 1999, the fair market rent for an SRO room in Los Angeles was $379 per month. 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. 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. Eric Jones Storekeeper B at City of Los Angeles - LADWP Los Angeles, California, United States 500+ connections 19516. 1401. I disagree, and therefore dissent, for a number of reasons. 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. at 105, 103 S.Ct. at 568 n. 31, 88 S.Ct. 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. The person's own safety and the public interest require this much. officers cited the Vinsons for violating section 41.18(d). (referring to Powell, 392 U.S. at 531-32, 88 S.Ct. Id. App. Noting that the statute in Powell differed from the statute in Robinson by covering more than mere status (being intoxicated and being found in a public place while in that condition), the dissent nevertheless found the same constitutional defect present as in both cases, the defendant was accused of being in a condition which he had no capacity to change or avoid. Id. We reverse the award of summary judgment to the City, grant summary judgment to Appellants, and remand to the district court for a determination of injunctive relief consistent with this opinion. The City's contention that standing requires Appellants to have been convicted under the ordinance ignores established standing principles. In Ingraham v. Wright,1 the Supreme Court explained that the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause not only regulates the kinds of punishment that the state may impose and the 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. As will be discussed below, Appellants' declarations demonstrate that they are not on the streets of Skid Row by informed choice. 2145 (White, J., concurring in the result). Guide to Electric Service. Their monthly general relief check is not sufficient to pay for a hotel room on Skid Row for the entire month. 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. 405), 1967 WL 113841. 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. 1401 (quoting Powell, 392 U.S. at 531-32, 88 S.Ct. In focusing on this lack of a conviction, the Fifth Circuit, the City, and the dissent all fail to recognize the distinction between the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause's first two protections and its third. 978, 140 L.Ed.2d 43 (1998)). at 685, 82 S.Ct. He was residing in a facility on Skid Row provided through the County's cold-weather voucher program when he was cited for sitting on the sidewalk. Justice Marshall's plurality opinion rejected Powell's reliance on Robinson because Powell was not convicted for being a chronic alcoholic but for being in public while drunk on a particular occasion. 2145. Ingraham rests on the distinction between state action inside and outside the criminal process, id. The argument that at trial a homeless individual would have recourse to a necessity defense so as to avoid conviction begs the question why the City arrests homeless individuals during nighttime in the first place, other than out of indifference or meanness. Around this time, Paradis simultaneously was representing Antwon Jones, an LADWP ratepayer suing the city and the department for billing overcharges he incurred from the billing system debacle. 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. (A)a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill); (B)an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or. Against this background, the City asserts the constitutionality of enforcing Los Angeles Municipal Code section 41.18(d) against those involuntarily on the streets during nighttime hours, such as Appellants. The district court rejected Jones's contention that the failure of the City to provide sufficient housing compels the conclusion that homelessness is cognizable as a status. at 669-71, 97 S.Ct. LADWP exists to serve all customers with safe, reliable and cost-effective water and power and currently provides 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. 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). 1417 (stating that punishing a person for having a venereal disease would be unconstitutional, and noting that drug addiction may be contracted innocently or involuntarily). 200 N Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 Jones claims that some 42,000 people are homeless each night in the City of Los Angeles, with approximately 11,000 living in the Skid Row area. Rainer and Ghislaine Best v. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 2145). Stre folija; Termo Shrink folija . BC536272, pursuant to Section 54956.9(d)(l) of the California Government Code. at 854, or by cases where the court did not even address the question whether there had been convictions. Pottinger was a class action on behalf of 6,000 homeless people living in Miami who alleged that arrests for sleeping or bathing in public, and destruction of their property, violated their rights under the Eighth Amendment. Yet the monthly welfare stipend for single adults in Los Angeles County is only $221. at 559 n. 2, 88 S.Ct. Id. The Powell dissent opined that a criminal penalty could not be imposed on a person suffering the disease of chronic alcoholism for a condition-being in a state of intoxication in public-which is a characteristic part of the pattern of his disease. 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. However, the Eighth Amendment does not afford due process protection when a Fourteenth Amendment claim proves unavailing. 1417. at 552-53, 88 S.Ct. 2145 (Marshall, J., plurality opinion) (stating that Robinson requires an actus reus before the state may punish). Candidates from the eligible list are normally appointed to vacancies in the lower pay grade positions.2. We do not-and should not-immunize from criminal liability those who commit an act as a result of a condition that the government's failure to provide a benefit has left them in. Address: 111 N. Hope St. Los Angeles CA 90012. . She is a Senior Vice President of Jones Lang LaSalle's Los Angeles office. 1551, 1559-60 (S.D.Fla.1992) (same), remanded for limited purposes, 40 F.3d 1155 (11th Cir.1994). Pursuant to the settlement agreement, the city sent a check to Ohio Attorney in the amount of approximately $19,241,003. at 667, 97 S.Ct. At 5:00 a.m. on December 24, 2002, Barger was sleeping on the sidewalk at Sixth and Towne when L.A.P.D. at 667, 97 S.Ct. Health & Safety Code 11721). [1] The Supreme Court, in Muskopf v.Corning Hospital District (1961) 55 Cal.2d 211 [ 11 Cal.Rptr. The Court did not articulate the principles that undergird its holding. 1865, 104 L.Ed.2d 443 (1989) (noting that Judge Friendly's view that Eighth Amendment protections do not attach until after conviction and sentence was confirmed by Ingraham). 2145. Our holding is a limited one. Charlie LeDuff, In Los Angeles, Skid Row Resists an Upgrade, N.Y. Times, July 15, 2003, at A1. Roulette v. City of Seattle, 97 F.3d 300, 302 (9th Cir.1996) (rejecting a facial challenge to a municipal ordinance that prohibited sitting or lying on public sidewalks); Tobe v. City of Santa Ana, 9 Cal.4th 1069, 1080, 40 Cal.Rptr.2d 402, 892 P.2d 1145 (1995) (finding a municipal ordinance that banned camping in designated public areas to be facially valid); nor a statute that criminalizes public drunkenness or camping, cf. It is undisputed, however, that Appellants have been and in the future will probably be fined, arrested, imprisoned, and/or prosecuted, as well as suffer the loss of their personal property, for involuntarily violating section 41.18(d). After spending the night in jail, Purrie was convicted of violating section 41.18(d), given a twelve-month suspended sentence, and ordered to pay $195 in restitution and attorneys' fees. Put differently, [t]he primary purpose of [the clause] has always been considered, and properly so, to be directed at the method or kind of punishment imposed for the violation of criminal statutes Ingraham, 430 U.S. at 667, 97 S.Ct. Nat'l Coal. 2006) Rule: Just as the Eighth Amendment prohibits the infliction of criminal punishment on an individual for being a drug addict, or for involuntary public drunkenness that is an unavoidable consequence of being a chronic alcoholic without a home, the Eighth Amendment prohibits a city from punishing involuntary . As the Los Angeles City Attorney has publicly stated, The tragedy of homelessness is compounded by indifference. Anat Rubin, Jobs, Not Jails, Skid Row Protesters Shout at Politicos, L.A. Daily J., Feb. 22, 2006, at 1 (quoting the City Attorney). And unless Robinson is so viewed it is difficult to see any limiting principle that would serve to prevent this Court from becoming, under the aegis of the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause, the ultimate arbiter of the standards of criminal responsibility, in diverse areas of the criminal law, throughout the country. 990, 51 L.Ed.2d 260 (1977) (omission in original) (internal quotation marks omitted); see also Kent Greenawalt, Uncontrollable Actions and the Eighth Amendment: Implications of Powell v. Texas, 69 Colum. at 567, 88 S.Ct. 1417, 8 L.Ed.2d 758 (1962), that there are substantive limits on what may be made criminal and punished as such, both the Court and we have constrained this category of Eighth Amendment violation to persons who are being punished for crimes that do not involve conduct that society has an interest in preventing. Contact us. They do not ask for section 41.18(d) to be declared facially unconstitutional; they seek only to have its enforcement enjoined in a small area of the city during nighttime hours. In Powell v. Texas, 392 U.S. 514, 88 S.Ct. On April 1, 2015, the action styled . 1326 impermissibly punished him for the status of being found in the United States. Hits Rock Bottom, L.A. Times, Oct. 17, 2005, at A1. See O'Shea, 414 U.S. at 496, 94 S.Ct. But generally one cannot become a drug addict or alcoholic, as those terms are commonly used, without engaging in at least some voluntary acts (taking drugs, drinking alcohol). His hook apparently contacted the wires and the resulting electric shock dislodged him from the ladder. 669, 38 L.Ed.2d 674 (1974), such an injunction would not strike down a single state statute, either on its face or as applied[, nor] enjoin any criminal prosecutions that might be brought under a challenged criminal law, but rather would be aimed at controlling or preventing the occurrence of specific events that might take place in the course of future state criminal trials. Id. This is important for two reasons: first, because it shows that the statute itself does not suffer the Robinson defect of making the status of being homeless a criminal offense; and second, because there is no evidence that Jones or any of the parties joining with him-including Purrie or Barger, who were convicted of violating LAMC 41.18(d)-were unable to stay off the sidewalk on the night they were arrested. augustine interpretation of genesis 3 jones v city of los angeles ladwpmaryland abortion law weeksmaryland abortion law weeks Roundtable, Homeless in LA: A Working Paper for the 10-Year Plan To End Homelessness in Los Angeles County (2003) (estimating that more than 253,000 individuals were homeless in Los Angeles County at some point during 2002). at 667-68, 97 S.Ct. 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. 304, the city rezoned the neighborhood in which the plaintiff was operating a sanitarium to prohibit residential mental health facilities, and the court ruled that compensation was required because the rezoning had "destroyed" or "eradicated" the business, rendering it completely without value. at 686, 97 S.Ct. 669. City of Los Angeles, case number BC577267, in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles. (C)a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings. Accordingly, the court granted the City's motion for summary judgment. 1401, 51 L.Ed.2d 711 (1977), for the proposition that the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause attaches only postconviction. City of Los Angeles, 5 Cal. jones v city of los angeles ladwp does bill pullman have sciatica/are rangers in financial trouble again 2021 / jones v city of los angeles ladwp. 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. Authors. 1983. Although we review a district court's summary judgment order granting or denying a permanent injunction for abuse of discretion, Fortyune v. Am. The number of homeless persons exceeds the number of available shelter beds. L.A. Housing Crisis Task Force, In Short Supply 6 (2000). 540, 543 (1992) (discussing the City's long-standing policy of concentrating and containing the homeless in the Skid Row area). 2145 (Fortas, J., dissenting) (I believe these findings must fairly be read to encompass facts that my Brother White agrees would require reversal, that is, that for appellant Powell, resisting drunkenness' and avoiding public places when intoxicated on the occasion in question were impossible. ). 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). at 569-70, 88 S.Ct. A. 2d 185 ] there affirms the rule that "the existence of a conspicuous defect or dangerous condition of a street or sidewalk for a . A more restrictive approach to standing, one that made conviction a prerequisite for any type of Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause challenge, would allow the state to criminalize a protected behavior or condition and cite, arrest, jail, and even prosecute individuals for violations, so long as no conviction resulted. E.g., L.A. Patricia and George Vinson, a married couple, were looking for work and a permanent place to live when they were cited for violating section 41.18(d). As a practical matter, it is questionable how homeless individuals would either know that they could assert a necessity defense or have the wherewithal to hire an attorney who might so advise them, particularly after being arrested, serving jail time, and losing their belongings. Testimony about Jones's usual condition when homeless is not a surrogate for evidence about his condition at the time he was arrested. See Powell, 392 U.S. at 549, 88 S.Ct. 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. See id. BC571664, with Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP as attorneys for plaintiffs (The Bower Law Group now represents plaintiffs in this action), filed on February 5, 2015. 2145 (Marshall, J., plurality opinion). at 550 n. 2, 88 S.Ct. 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. 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