Homeless Feeding Law to Be Debated in Federal Court
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2005 Volume 4, Issue 80 FREE Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues DAILY LOTTERY Needle in a haystack SUPER LOTTO Homeless feeding 21 30 31 37 39 Meganumber: 5 Jackpot: $16 Million law to be debated FANTASY 5 1 7 11 18 31 DAILY 3 Daytime: 4 4 3 in federal court Evening: 4 7 3 DAILY DERBY Food Not Bombs and The suit alleges the law is unen- 1st: 04 Big Ben forceable, even though it has been 2nd: 01 Gold Rush other nonprofit groups repeatedly tailored in an attempt to 3rd: 09 Winning Spirit address a host of First Amendment RACE TIME: 1:44.81 sued City Hall over law issues. designed to discourage “The city’s administrative reg- NEWS OF THE WEIRD ulations are a little bit like Jell-O BY CHUCK SHEPARD outdoor homeless feedings — they change at whim, they have Paul Eugene Levengood, owner of the no force or effect,” said Carol Tasty Flavors Sno Biz dessert shop in BY JOHN WOOD Sobel, a civil-rights lawyer who Alejandro Cesar Cantarero II/Daily Press the Chattanooga, Tenn., suburb of Red Daily Press Staff Writer represents the plaintiffs in the fed- A Yahoo! Personals Valentine’s Day promotion on the Promenade reminds Bank, was charged with two counts of sexual battery in November when two eral lawsuit. people that finding that special someone can be like searching for a needle 19-year-old female employees said he FEDERAL COURTHOUSE — A “It’s just crazy,” Sobel added in a haystack. had occasionally spanked them for panel of federal judges was during a Friday telephone inter- workplace errors (for example, once for forgetting to put a banana into a expected to hear oral arguments view. “If you had somebody smoothie drink). A defensive today over whether a law designed standing on Pacific Palisades Park Levengood pointed out that the women to limit homeless feedings in with a sign that said, ‘Feed the “The city’s administrative regulations are a had each signed a form, “I give Gene permission to bust my behind any way Santa Monica tramples on the homeless, Santa Monica,’ if 150 little bit like Jell-O — they change at whim, he sees fit.” Police found at the store First Amendment. people stopped to look at it, you’d many photographs of women’s poste- City Hall was sued in January need a permit. Even if you’re just they have no force or effect.” riors, even though a Sno Biz executive of 2003 after passing an ordinance standing there. It’s a little crazy.” called Levengood a “very Christian person.” that made it illegal for groups to A range of other First - CAROL SOBEL feed more than 150 people in pub- Amendment issues was expected Civil-rights attorney TODAY IN HISTORY lic without city and county per- to be raised in the oral arguments On Feb. 14, 1929, the “St. Valentine’s mits. The lawsuit was thrown out today at the federal courthouse in Day Massacre” took place in a at the trial level in August of 2003 Pasadena. Presiding over the hear- the large homeless feedings that to regularly host the large feed- Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al and appealed to the Ninth District ing will be U.S. Court of Appeals are regularly hosted in front of ings. Capone’s gang were gunned down. In 1984, 6-year-old Stormie Jones Court of Appeals. Judges Marsha S. Berzon, Andrew City Hall, and in Palisades and “We feel we have the argu- became the world’s first heart-liver A handful of individuals and J. Kleinfeld and Kim McLane Reed parks. Officials said they ments that will prevail,” City transplant recipient at Children’s nonprofit groups — including Wardlaw. have had some success in getting Councilman Richard Bloom said Hospital of Pittsburgh (she lived until Food Not Bombs and International Officials at City Hall said they the groups, most of which are last week. “It (the law) doesn’t November 1990). In 1985, Cable News Network reporter Answer, both organizations that were confident the judges would from outside of Santa Monica, to hamper free speech in any mean- Jeremy Levin, who was being held promote peace — claims the city uphold the feeding law. The ordi- partner with local social-service hostage by extremists in Lebanon, was ordinance is rife with conflicts. nance was designed to force inside providers, but a handful continues See HOMELESS, page 7 freed. 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