Legal Opinion
City of Akron v. Rowland
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided September 22, 1993No. 92-1120PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWright, J.
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A. History of Loitering Laws
Loitering and vagrancy laws have a long and troubling history in Anglo-American jurisprudence. Vagrancy laws existed in England as early as the seventh century in the form of “poor laws.” See Comment, The Third Generation of Loitering Laws Goes to Court: Do Laws That Criminalize “Loitering with the Intent to Sell Drugs” Pass Constitutional Muster? (1993), 71 N.C.L.Rev. 513, 515. Poor laws were instituted for economic reasons: they criminalized the status of unemployment in an attempt to ensure that peasant-class laborers would be unable to leave the employ of…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Connally v. General Construction Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1926
- Kolender v. LawsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. ButtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by71 opinions
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