United States Ninth Circuit
Lavan v. City of Los Angeles, 11-56253
In a suit against the City of Los Angeles (City) brought by homeless individuals, claiming that the City violated their Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by seizing and immediately destroying their unabandoned personal possessions that were temporarily left on public sidewalks, the City's appeal of the district court's grant of plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction is denied, where the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments protect homeless persons from government seizure and summary destruction of their abandoned but momentarily unattended personal property.
Appellate Information
- Decided 09/05/2012
- Published 09/05/2012
Judges
- Wardlaw
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit