1417 (equating a statute that makes the status of addiction criminal with making it a crime for a person to be mentally ill, or a leper, or to be afflicted with a venereal disease, and noting that addiction is an illness that may be contracted innocently or involuntarily). 2145 (White, J., concurring in the judgment); id. 989, 993 (D.Ariz.1996), which similarly held that homeless persons challenging a city resolution to remove them from a location where they had camped lacked standing because the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment can only be invoked by persons convicted of crimes. I agree with the City that our jurisdiction is implicated, and I disagree with the majority that we should be persuaded to reach the merits by Joyce, 846 F.Supp. 829 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW EIGHTH AMENDMENT NINTH CIRCUIT HOLDS THAT "INVOLUNTARY" CONDUCT CANNOT BE PUNISHED. Jones v.City of Los Angeles, 444 F.3d 1118 (9th Cir. at 548-49, 88 S.Ct. 2145 (Marshall, J., plurality)). Recently, it has been reported that local hospitals and law enforcement agencies from nearby suburban areas have been caught dumping homeless individuals in Skid Row upon their release. at 1135. Jones v. City of Los Angeles: A Dangerous Expansion of Eighty Amendment Protections Stifles Efforts to Clean up Skid Row. It's that simple.. No. The term Skid Row derives from the lumber industry practice of building a road or track made of logs laid crosswise over which other logs were slid. 1551, 1559-60 (S.D.Fla.1992) (same), remanded for limited purposes, 40 F.3d 1155 (11th Cir.1994). Apr. Id. at 436. Jones argues that LAMC 41.18(d) makes criminal what biology and circumstance make necessary, that is, sitting, lying, and sleeping on the streets. This evidence supports the reasonable inference that shelter is unavailable for thousands of homeless individuals in Los Angeles on any given night, including on the nights in question. 978, 140 L.Ed.2d 43 (1998)). at 438 (citing Ingraham, 430 U.S. at 667, 97 S.Ct. 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. The Robinson and Powell decisions, read together, compel us to conclude that enforcement of section 41.18(d) at all times and in all places against homeless individuals who are sitting, lying, or sleeping in Los Angeles's Skid Row because they cannot obtain shelter violates the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause. Being homeless, however, is a transitory state. The City asserts for the first time on appeal that the homeless persons who pursue this Eighth Amendment action lack standing because they were never convicted of violating the ordinance. at 2; see also Grace R. Dyrness et al., Crisis on the Streets: Homeless Women and Children in Los Angeles 14 (2003) (noting that approximately 14% of homeless individuals in Los Angeles are victims of domestic violence). Chief Of Operations 7258. This is the only study in the record (others referred to by the majority are not), and it does not indicate that Los Angeles was among the cities surveyed. 2145 (White, J., concurring) (noting that resisting drunkenness and avoiding public places when intoxicated may be impossible for some); id. In fact, the Ingraham decision expressly recognizes that the Clause imposes substantive limits on what can be made criminal, id. Id. Not only has Jones produced no evidence of present or past Eighth Amendment violations, he has failed to show any likelihood of future violations.5 Since 1998, California has recognized a necessity-due-to-homelessness defense to ordinances such as LAMC 41.18(d). Take the City of Los Angeles Assessment of Fair Housing Surveys. at 568 n. 31, 88 S.Ct. Although this principle did not determine the outcome in Powell, it garnered the considered support of a majority of the Court. Powell, 392 U.S. at 533, 88 S.Ct. See L.A., Cal., Ordinance 137,269 (Sept. 11, 1968). v. City of Los Angeles, et al.was filed by Ohio 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 (explaining that the Eighth Amendment concerns the criminal process and seeks to limit the power of those entrusted with the criminal-law function of government). Second Dist., Div. Fontaine, et al. BC570773, pursuant to Section 54956.9(d)(l) of the California Government Code. 1417 (This statute, therefore, is not one which punishes a person for the use of narcotics, for their purchase, sale or possession, or for antisocial or disorderly behavior resulting from their administration.). This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. See Mayor's Citizens' Task Force on Cent. 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. See id. Curtis v. Los Angeles, 172 Cal. Concrete Mixtures. As Los Angeles's homeless population has grown, see id. Article III of the Constitution requires a plaintiff seeking to invoke the jurisdiction of the federal courts to allege an actual case or controversy. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to persons sitting on the curb portion of any sidewalk or street while attending or viewing any parade permitted under the provisions of Section 103.111 of Article 2, Chapter X of this Code; nor shall the provisions of this subsection supply [sic] to persons sitting upon benches or other seating facilities provided for such purpose by municipal authority by this Code. Nor may the state criminalize conduct that is an unavoidable consequence of being homeless-namely sitting, lying, or sleeping on the streets of Los Angeles's Skid Row. A man who sued the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power over inaccurate utility billings filed a lawsuit in federal court . In the late 1980s, James K. Hahn, who served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 1985 to 2001 and subsequently as Mayor, refused to prosecute the homeless for sleeping in public unless the City provided them with an alternative to the streets. 1401. Appellants are six of the more than 80,000 homeless individuals in Los Angeles County on any given night. Accordingly, I part company with the majority's expansive construction of the substantive limits on criminality. Justice White concurred in the judgment. In this connection, we noted that [t]he proper procedure to raise this sort of claim would have been for Kidder to have pleaded not guilty and then to challenge the constitutionality of the [statute]. 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. Penal Code Ann. 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. On cross-motions for summary judgment, the district court granted judgment in favor of the City. Hodgers-Durgin v. de la Vina, 199 F.3d 1037, 1045 (9th Cir.1999) (en banc). BC577267, which alleges that customers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (the "LADWP") were over-billed or experienced other billing errors that were caused by, and are 2145. 1401). 669, 38 L.Ed.2d 674 (1974). Id. Id. 540, 543 (1992) (discussing the City's long-standing policy of concentrating and containing the homeless in the Skid Row area). 669. at 1332. 1660 (standing requires a direct injury). App. He maintains that the gap between the number of homeless persons in Los Angeles, and the number of available shelter beds, leaves thousands without shelter every night. 1660, 75 L.Ed.2d 675 (1983) (holding that the threat must be real and immediate as opposed to conjectural or hypothetical). 26660. While this might satisfy the Fifth Circuit's Johnson test, it does not necessarily save their standing to the extent they challenge the ordinance based on being convicted for the involuntary condition of being on the streets without available shelter. We hold that a state law which imprisons a person thus afflicted as a criminal, even though he has never touched any narcotic drug within the State or been guilty of any irregular behavior there, inflicts a cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Cf. See Kidder, 869 F.2d at 1333. 58 (W.D.N.C.1969), vacated on other grounds by 401 U.S. 987, 91 S.Ct. 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. 22 BC536272); Bransford v City of Los Angeles (Case No. Research the case of Jones v. City of Los Angeles, from the California Supreme Court, 12-31-1930. . 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. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. This argument also lacks merit. Appellants argue that the district court's denial of summary judgment should be reviewed de novo, while the City argues that the abuse of discretion standard applies because the district court denied a request for equitable relief. Appellants have therefore alleged an actual case or controversy and have standing to bring this suit. We do not suggest that Los Angeles adopt any particular social policy, plan, or law to care for the homeless. A plaintiff alleging violations of the first or second protections, therefore, has not suffered constitutionally cognizable harm unless he has been convicted. At 6:30 a.m. on November 20, 2002, Edward and Janet Jones were sleeping on the sidewalk at the corner of Industrial and Alameda Streets when the L.A.P.D. However, as five Justices would later make clear in Powell, Robinson also supports the principle that the state cannot punish a person for certain conditions, either arising from his own acts or contracted involuntarily, or acts that he is powerless to avoid. jones v city of los angeles ladwpmlb 2022 projected standings. at 667, 97 S.Ct. LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has expanded its customer bill pay options by accepting credit card payments at all of its 15 Customer Service Centers (CSCs) starting today. 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). The City challenges Appellants' standing for the first time on appeal. 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). Accordingly, I would affirm. Their monthly general relief check is not sufficient to pay for a hotel room on Skid Row for the entire month. 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. Edward JONES; Patricia Vinson; George Vinson; Thomas Cash; Stanley Barger; Robert Lee Purrie, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES; William Bratton, Chief; Charles Beck, Captain, in their official capacity, Defendants-Appellees. Opinion . On April 1, 2015, the action styled . [1] The Supreme Court, in Muskopf v.Corning Hospital District (1961) 55 Cal.2d 211 [ 11 Cal.Rptr. Joyce, however, was based on a very different factual underpinning than is present here. Id. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), a highly visible proprietary department of the City of Los Angeles, and the largest city-owned water and electric utility in the nation, was established more than 100 years ago. This position is consistent with that of the Powell dissenters, who quoted and agreed with Justice White's standard, see id. at 548-49, 88 S.Ct. LADWP Electric Rate Case Settlement Administrator c/o Kurtzman Carson Consultants P.O. Guide to Electric Service. at 559, 88 S.Ct. We conclude that Appellants have standing to bring this action. E.g., United States v. Arellano-Rivera, 244 F.3d 1119, 1125 (9th Cir.2001). The four Justices joining the plurality opinion interpreted Robinson to prohibit only the criminalization of pure status and not to limit the criminalization of conduct. People v. Pepper, 41 Cal.App.4th 1029, 48 Cal.Rptr.2d 877, 880 (1996). 1983. Jan. 30, 1979.] Being drunk in public is not far removed in time from the acts of getting drunk and going into public, and there is no meaningful line between the man who appears in public drunk and that same man five minutes later who is then being drunk in public. Id. officers leaflet Skid Row the day before making their section 41.18(d) sweeps to warn the homeless, and do not cite or arrest people for violating section 41.18(d) unless there are open beds in homeless shelters at the time of the violations. This appeal timely followed. See Thomas v. Anchorage Equal Rights Comm'n, 220 F.3d 1134, 1139-41 (9th Cir.2000) (en banc). 2145, 20 L.Ed.2d 1254 (1968) (White, J., concurring in the judgment). Similarly, judgment was pronounced and Purrie was given a twelve-month suspended sentence on January 15, 2003 with the condition that he stay away from location of arrest.4 If a conviction is constitutionally required, the fact that two of the six plaintiffs were convicted suffices to establish standing for all. 1564, 26 L.Ed.2d 26 (1970) (the criminal process may begin pre-arrest, as soon as the state decides to prosecute an individual and amasses evidence against him). 1865. 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. 897, 899 n. 2, 908 (D.Colo.1969) (three-judge court); see also Wheeler v. Goodman, 306 F.Supp. 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). L.Rev. The first is the distinction between pure status-the state of being-and pure conduct-the act of doing. 251 F.3d 1230, 1238 (9th Cir.2001). 2A(S)-Jones v. City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Superior Court Case Id. 592, 98 L.Ed.2d 686 (1988); id. 2145 (Marshall, J., plurality opinion). Stanley Barger also is homeless and disabled. Skid Row is a place of desperate poverty, drug use, and crime, where Porta-Potties serve as sleeping quarters and houses of prostitution. 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. 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. By our decision, we in no way dictate to the City that it must provide sufficient shelter for the homeless, or allow anyone who wishes to sit, lie, or sleep on the streets of Los Angeles at any time and at any place within the City. The record includes more than a half dozen public reports Appellants filed in support of their motion for summary judgment, without objection. It is not a law which even purports to provide or require medical treatment. Having pleaded guilty, however, Kidder may not now claim that his actions were really involuntary and thus not constitutionally susceptible to punishment. Kidder, 869 F.2d at 1333. However, there is no showing in this case that shelter was unavailable on the night that any of the six was apprehended. Although we review a district court's summary judgment order granting or denying a permanent injunction for abuse of discretion, Fortyune v. Am. At approximately noon on January 10, 2003, Cash tired as he walked to the SRO hotel where he was staying. Robert Lee Purrie has tried to find shelter in Skid Row and been told that there are no beds available. 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. ). 200 N Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 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. 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. 1417 (quoting Cal. 1401 (White, J., dissenting)). Editing by Bruce Goldman. Jones was part of a class-action lawsuit against LADWP, after it was revealed a faulty billing system sent thousands of customers inaccurate bills in 2013. (Opinion by Kingsley, Acting P. J., with Jefferson (Bernard) and Alarcon, JJ., concurring.) She is a Senior Vice President of Jones Lang LaSalle's Los Angeles office. See Hodgers-Durgin v. de la Vina, 199 F.3d 1037, 1041 (9th Cir.1999) (en banc) (citing Spencer v. Kemna, 523 U.S. 1, 15, 118 S.Ct. & Regional Res. Powell, 392 U.S. at 554 n. 5, 88 S.Ct. The court held that arresting homeless individuals for harmless, involuntary conduct is cruel and unusual punishment and a violation of their due process rights. Id. 21 Los Angeles and the related cases: Kimhi v. City of Los Angeles (Case No. On appeal to the United States Supreme Court, Powell argued that the Eighth Amendment prohibited punish[ing] an ill person for conduct over which he has no control. Brief for Appellant at 6, Powell, 392 U.S. 514, 88 S.Ct. Past exposure to allegedly unlawful state action, while not alone sufficient to establish a present case or controversy, is evidence bearing on whether there is a real and immediate threat of repeated injury. Lyons, 461 U.S. at 102, 103 S.Ct. As no one has made that showing, the claimants both lack standing and lose on the merits. Appellants have demonstrated both past injuries and a real and immediate threat of future injury: namely, they have been and are likely to be fined, arrested, incarcerated, prosecuted, and/or convicted for involuntarily violating section 41.18(d) at night in Skid Row. 16, 1963.] In contrast, the four Justices in dissent read Robinson to stand for the proposition that [c]riminal penalties may not be inflicted on a person for being in a condition he is powerless to change. Id. Health & Safety Code 11721). The police removed his property from his tent, broke it down, and threw all of his property, including the tent, into the street. at 669-71, 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. Justice White and the Powell dissenters shared a common view of the importance of involuntariness to the Eighth Amendment inquiry. He was arrested pursuant to the warrant and also charged with violating the ordinance. Although the Supreme Court recognized in Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660, 82 S.Ct. See DiMassa, Policing Homeless, supra. LADWP Billing Settlement Administrator P.O. at 551, 88 S.Ct. Jones v. City of Los Angeles (1979) Annotate this Case [Civ. 2145 (Marshall, J., plurality)); see also United States v. Parga-Rosas, 238 F.3d 1209, 1212 (9th Cir.2001) (noting that the point of Powell and Ayala is that criminal penalties can be imposed only if the accused has committed some actus reus). Here, the majority holds that 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. Maj. op. It is not open to us to back off the rule, or to accept, as the majority here does instead, the view of the dissent in Ingraham that the Court's rationale was based upon the distinction between criminal and noncriminal punishment. Maj. op. 17 (prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment). Finally, one must question the policy of arresting, jailing, and prosecuting individuals whom the City Attorney concedes cannot be convicted due to a necessity defense. See Eichorn, 69 Cal.App.4th at 389-91, 81 Cal.Rptr.2d 535. 2145 (Marshall, J., plurality opinion) (quoting Tex. A violation of section 41.18(d) is punishable by a fine of up to $1000 and/or imprisonment of up to six months. at 1136. Auth., supra, at 2-14 (in the County as a whole, there are almost 50,000 more homeless people than available beds). This has not always been City policy. 3. Even assuming that at least one of the six homeless persons in this action has been convicted and will be prosecuted again, there is no basis for supposing that he will be convicted again. L.A.P.D. In his separate opinion, Justice White rejected the plurality's proposed status-conduct distinction, finding it similar to forbidding criminal conviction for being sick with flu or epilepsy but permitting punishment for running a fever or having a convulsion. Id. Opinion, Patel v. City of Los Angeles, 738 F.3d 1058 (9th Cir. 2145 (Fortas, J., dissenting). at 550 n. 2, 88 S.Ct. for the Homeless & Nat'l Law Ctr. 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. Ingraham rests on the distinction between state action inside and outside the criminal process, id. Law School Case Brief; Jones v. City of Los Angeles - 444 F.3d 1118 (9th Cir. The City also argues Appellants lack standing because, after being arrested, jailed, and losing their belongings, Appellants could theoretically raise a necessity defense if they were prosecuted. To satisfy the case or controversy requirement, the party invoking a court's jurisdiction must show that he personally has suffered some actual or threatened injury as a result of the putatively illegal conduct of the defendant, and that the injury fairly can be traced to the challenged action and is likely to be redressed by a favorable decision. Valley Forge Christian Coll. Id. It agreed with Judge Jensen's analysis in Joyce v. City and County of San Francisco, 846 F.Supp. No. Brief of Drug Free America Foundation, Inc. et al. at 568 n. 31, 88 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. And if they do it again, you arrest them, prosecute them, and put them in jail. By the 1930s, the term was used to describe the area of town frequented by loggers and densely populated with bars and brothels. He has lived in the Skid Row area for four decades. The Court did not articulate the principles that undergird its holding. Purrie sleeps on the streets because he cannot afford a room in an SRO hotel and is often unable to find an open bed in a shelter. Rather, [t]he entire thrust of Robinson's interpretation of the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause is that criminal penalties may be inflicted only if the accused has committed some act, has engaged in some behavior, which society has an interest in preventing, or perhaps in historical common law terms, has committed some actus reus. It thus does not deal with the question of whether certain conduct cannot constitutionally be punished because it is, in some sense, involuntary or occasioned by a compulsion.. Ct. App. The second is the distinction between an involuntary act or condition and a voluntary one. Indeed, the court [ 74 Cal. Auth., supra, at 2-10. 1417, 8 L.Ed.2d 758 (1962); or for involuntary public drunkenness that is an unavoidable consequence of being a chronic alcoholic without a home, Powell, 392 U.S. at 551, 88 S.Ct. jones v city of los angeles ladwp maine high school baseball rankings May 21, 2022. send money inmate santa rita jail . City News Service is a regional wire service covering Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties. at 908; Wheeler, 306 F.Supp. at 1128 (quoting 430 U.S. at 687, 97 S.Ct. It is undisputed that, for homeless individuals in Skid Row who have no access to private spaces, these acts can only be done in public. Maj. op. These cases establish that the state may not make it an offense to be idle, indigent, or homeless in public places. First, unlike the dissenters, Justice White believed Powell had not demonstrated that his public drunkenness was involuntary. A basic midwestern personal injury attorney, Landskroner one day ended up in Los Angeles, as a consumer rights guy, working on the LADWP water billing case. at 851-53. BC536272, pursuant to Section 54956.9(d)(l) of the California Government Code. All rights reserved. 2145 (White, J., concurring in the judgment). Dog Agility Training At It's Finest. Cf. It also reports that between 33% and 50% of the homeless in Los Angeles are mentally ill, and 76% percent of homeless adults in 1990 had been employed for some or all of the two years prior to becoming homeless. In Jones v. City of Los Angeles (1930) 211 Cal. Homeless Servs. 230 [156 Pac. Six homeless individuals, unable to obtain shelter on the night each was cited or arrested, filed this Eighth Amendment challenge to the enforcement of a City of Los Angeles ordinance that criminalizes sitting, lying, or sleeping on public streets and sidewalks at all times and in all places within Los Angeles's city limits. There is no record of conviction. At FindLaw.com, we pride ourselves on being the number one source of free legal information and resources on the web. 2145 (Marshall, J., plurality). 1401; see also Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386, 392 & n. 6, 109 S.Ct. More than 8,800 employees of LADWP serve the City of Los Angeles, providing water and power in a cost-effective and environmentally responsible . As homeless individuals, Appellants are in a chronic state that may have been acquired innocently or involuntarily. Robinson, 370 U.S. at 667, 82 S.Ct. Jones submits that as the City could not expressly criminalize the status of being homeless without offending the Eighth Amendment, it cannot enforce the ordinance when the number of homeless persons exceeds the number of available shelter beds because to do so has the effect of criminalizing homelessness. 1861 (Stevens, J., dissenting) (Nor is this an Eighth Amendment Case. at 667-68, 97 S.Ct. Four. Joyce v. City and County of San Francisco, 846 F.Supp. Similarly, applying Robinson and Powell, courts have found statutes criminalizing the status of vagrancy to be unconstitutional. Id. Acceptance of Visa and MasterCard for in-person bill pay at regional CSCs is an additional convenience and another option among the . "Jones" refers to a lawsuit titled Antwon Jones vs. City of Los Angeles, which was confirmed in a court investigation last year to have been a, "sham lawsuit," in which the City. tancane kutije; Transportne kutije; Dambo kutije; Folije. The City demonstrated that of 3820 referral slips offered to men, only 1866 were taken and only 678 used. Homeless Servs. at 532, 88 S.Ct. Federal law defines the term homeless individual to include, (1)an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; and, (2)an individual who has a primary nighttime residence that is-. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the nation's largest municipally-owned utility, providing safe, reliable and affordable electric and water service to nearly 4 million people. at 685, 82 S.Ct. 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