Legal Opinion
Blair v. Shanahan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 31, 1994No. Nos. 92-15447, 92-15450 and 92-15451PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Chief Judge WALLACE.
Dissent by Judge GARTH.
WALLACE, Chief Judge:
The City and County of San Francisco (City) and intervenor State of California (State) request us to review a decision of the district court, Blair v. Shanahan, 775 F.Supp. 1315 (N.D.Cal.1991) (Blair I), declaring facially unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments a state statute criminalizing aggressive panhandling. Cal.Penal Code § 647(c). That statute provides that anyone “[w]ho accosts other persons in any public place or in any place open to the public for the purpose of begging or soliciting…
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