Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness v. City of Sacramento
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SACRAMENTO REGIONAL No. 2:18-cv-00878-MCE-AC
COALITION TO END
HOMELESSNESS, JAMES LEE CLARK, and SACRAMENTO HOMELESS ORGANIZING MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
COMMITTEE,
14 Plaintiffs, 15 v.
CITY OF SACRAMENTO,
17 Defendant. 18 19 Through the present lawsuit, filed on April 10, 2018, Plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of an anti-solicitation ordinance adopted by Defendant City of Sacramento (“Defendant” or “City”). According to Plaintiffs, the ordinance, by prohibiting what it terms “aggressive and intrusive solicitation” throughout the city, amounted to a content based restriction on speech that was presumptively invalid under the First Amendment unless it could pass muster under an onerous “strict scrutiny” analysis. Concurrently with the filing of its lawsuit, Plaintiffs moved for a preliminary injunction that would enjoin implementation of the ordinance pending disposition of their lawsuit. ECF No. 8. By Memorandum and Order filed July 19, 2018, the Court…