[lbo-talk] AP: "Homeless challenge public drinking law"

[B.]

[Brings to mind the Anatole France quote: "The law, in
its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the
poor from sleeping under bridges and urinating in
public."]

Homeless Challenge Public Drinking Law 

AP - Tue Jun 15, 2:17 PM ET 

If the rich and powerful can drink in a public park in
the weeks before next year's Super Bowl, why can't the
homeless do it now? That is the question the lawyer
for three homeless men is raising in a court challenge
over their arrest for drinking in a park that will be
part of a designated party zone before the Super Bowl.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=12&u=/ap/homeless_challenge