L'Hote v. New Orleans
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. By ordinance No. 13,032, council series, approved January 29, 1897, it was ordained by the Common Council of the city of New Orleans: “That from the first of October, 1897, it shall be unlawful for any public prostitute or woman notoriously abandoned to lewdness to occupy, inhabit, live qr sleep in any house, room or closet situated without the following limits: South side of Custom House street from Basin to Robertson…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. By ordinance No. 13,032, council series, approved January 29, 1897, it was ordained by the Common Council of the city of New Orleans: “That from the first of October, 1897, it shall be unlawful for any public prostitute or woman notoriously abandoned to lewdness to occupy, inhabit, live qr sleep in any house, room or closet situated without the following limits: South side of Custom House street from Basin to Robertson street, east side of Robertson street from Custom House to St. Louis street, south side of St. Louis street from Robertson…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
The question presented in this case is whether an ordinance of the city of New Orleans prescribing limits in that city, outside of which no woman of lewd character shall'dwell, operates to deprive these plaintiffs in error of any right secured by the Constitution of the United States. It is well, in the first place, to look at the negative side and see what is not involved. No woman of that character is challenging its validity; there is no complaint by her that she is deprived of any personal rights, either as to the control of her life or the selection of an abiding place. She is not saying…
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