Legal Opinion
Roulette v. City of Seattle
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 18, 1996No. 94-35354PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge.
The first step to wisdom is calling a thing by its right name. Whoever named “parkways” and “driveways” never got to step two; whoever named “sidewalks” did.
Seeing the wisdom of preserving the sidewalk as an area for walking along the side of the road, the City of Seattle passed an ordinance generally prohibiting people from sitting or lying on public sidewalks in certain commercial areas between seven in the morning and nine in the evening. SMC §§ 15.48.040.1 The ordinance doesn’t restrict sitting or lying in public parks, private or public plazas, or alleys,…
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3Cited by74 opinions
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