The Wacky 9th Circuit

In a decision handed down during the month of April, the 9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals greatly diminished the means by which the homeless could be removed from an infamous stretch of several downtown blocks in the City of Los Angeles. The lunacy of this decision makes abundantly clear the disregard for any notion of private property in the region encompassed by the 9th Circuit; the businesses in front of which these squatters often take residence are adversely affected and possess minimal, if any, apparent recourse. The Judiciary's usurpation of its intended role seems increasingly on display. John C. Eastman, of the Claremont Institute and Chapman University, has written a persuasive essay on the Judiciary's encroachment: Summer 2005 edition of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy (I don't have the link at present time). The Opinion of the 9th Circuit (Jones v. City of LA)