L.A. ALLIANCE FOR SURVIVAL v. CITY OF L.A.

No. S073451.

93 Cal.Rptr.2d 1 (2000)

22 Cal.4th 352

993 P.2d 334

LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR SURVIVAL et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

March 2, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James K. Hahn, City Attorney, Frederick N. Merkin, Byron R. Boeckman and Debbie Lew, Assistant City Attorneys, and Candice I. Horikawa, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Appellants.

Louise H. Renne, City Attorney (San Francisco), Thomas J. Owen, Deputy City Attorney; and Mara E. Rosales for City and County of San Francisco, County of Sacramento, Port of Oakland and Port of San Diego as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Munger, Tolles & Olson, Marc A. Becker, Los Angeles, and Jeremy B. Rosen, for Center for the Community Interest, 77 California Cities and Central City Association of Los Angeles as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Kent S. Scheidegger, for Criminal Justice Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Mark D. Rosenbaum, Peter J. Eliasberg, Los Angeles, Barbara J. Antonio; Karl Manheim; Law Office of Carol A. Sobel, Carol A. Sobel, Santa Monica; and William B. Rubenstein for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Maria Foscarinis and Catherine Bendor, for the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Law Offices of David M. Liberman, David M. Liberman, Los Angeles, and Deborah Zexter, for One World One Family Now, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Levy, Ram & Olson, Karl Olson, San Francisco; and Alice Neff Lucan, Washington, District of Columbia, for California Newspapers Publishers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

McCutheon, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, Charles Crompton III, Frank Kennamer, Meghan Rhea, San Francisco; and Judith Appel, San Francisco, for the Coalition on Homelessness and the Street Spirit as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.


GEORGE, C.J.

We granted the request of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Ninth Circuit) for certification pursuant to California Rules of Court, rule 29.5 (rule 29.5), to address an important issue of state law: What is the proper standard under article I, section 2, subdivision (a) of the California Constitution (hereafter article I, section (2)(a), or liberty of speech clause) for analyzing the constitutionality of ordinances governing the...

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