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Well, me, my attorney, and apparently the city attorney think I will.
I've been going to court to get Eureka's anti-camping law struck down, under the Federal Ninth Circuit's Jones v. City of Los Angeles, which said that it's unconstitutional under the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the constitution, to prohibit sleeping. The court was vague, and didn't specify times or locations. There was court mandated arbitration which the city rejected. There have been other shows of bad faith in the Ninth Circuit's jurisdiction : Los Vegas had a law against feeding anyone who appeared to be homeless. Fresno, CA has a temporary injunction against destroying camping equipment. Even in Los Angeles, where the Jones decision originated, the city refused a court ordered federal mediator's plan, and plans to appeal.
In Eureka, since the Jones decision, the cops have also destroyed camping equipment, claiming the camp was illegal, although that ordinance is likely to get struck down tommorow. In addition, the police, in a town of 26,000 have killed three times this year, and there are numerous reports of police brutality, which may be used in court.
The former city attorney decided to prosecute me, he was so disliked by some of the residents, they were filing almost one suit a week aganist him when I was following local politics last winter. (The disfunction of the city morphed into litigation recently. )The new city attorney wanted to settle with an injunction against the city enforcing the law! My attorney passionately advised me not to sign it, which I won't.
I've been going to court to get Eureka's anti-camping law struck down, under the Federal Ninth Circuit's Jones v. City of Los Angeles, which said that it's unconstitutional under the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the constitution, to prohibit sleeping. The court was vague, and didn't specify times or locations. There was court mandated arbitration which the city rejected. There have been other shows of bad faith in the Ninth Circuit's jurisdiction : Los Vegas had a law against feeding anyone who appeared to be homeless. Fresno, CA has a temporary injunction against destroying camping equipment. Even in Los Angeles, where the Jones decision originated, the city refused a court ordered federal mediator's plan, and plans to appeal.
In Eureka, since the Jones decision, the cops have also destroyed camping equipment, claiming the camp was illegal, although that ordinance is likely to get struck down tommorow. In addition, the police, in a town of 26,000 have killed three times this year, and there are numerous reports of police brutality, which may be used in court.
The former city attorney decided to prosecute me, he was so disliked by some of the residents, they were filing almost one suit a week aganist him when I was following local politics last winter. (The disfunction of the city morphed into litigation recently. )The new city attorney wanted to settle with an injunction against the city enforcing the law! My attorney passionately advised me not to sign it, which I won't.
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