civil rights attorney
Civil rights attorney who represented a group of homeless in a lawsuit against a previous LA City ordinance prohibiting Angelenos from living in their vehicles
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Carol Sobel
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FROM Carol Sobel
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Did LA Pass Its First Big El Niño Test? The first of this year's El Niño storms were only a test, and Southern California is braced for another onslaught of mudslides, potholes, flooded freeways and basements and mountains of trash swept out into the ocean. We get updates and look at what's next.
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Prohibiting People Living in Their Cars Last year a federal appeals court struck down an LA ordinance prohibiting people from living in their vehicles. In their ruling, judges described the law as “an invitation to discriminate against the poor.” Now the city attorney, Mike Feuer, has written two amended versions of the ordinance for consideration by the city council. How are these new drafts different, and what will it mean for the thousands of people living in cars and RVs on LA’s streets.
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