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Anti-solicitation law shelved, for now, in Costa Mesa

By Richard Binder

Barely a month after civil rights groups filed a lawsuit challenging Costa Mesa's anti-solicitation ordinance on the grounds that it prevented day laborers from looking for work on the street, we have a moratorium.

The city agreed to stop enforcing the ordinance, says the ACLU, pending a decision by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeal on a challenge to a similar anti-solicitation ordinance in the city of Redondo Beach. The ACLU has claimed that the ordinance stops a wide range of other groups, including small businesses that use handheld advertising on public streets and people in fund-raising activities.

The lawsuit also asks that the city pay damages to Colectivo Tonantzin, a day laborer advocacy group, as well as reasonable attorneys' fees, costs, and expenses.

Full story at OCRegister.com.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on March 03, 2010 (boomark / email).