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Suing: Homeless person CRAIG BENEFIT enlisted the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union (MCLU) after he was arrested twice for begging in Harvard Square. The MCLU will contend that a state law prohibiting begging is unconstitutional...
Suing: Homeless person CRAIG BENEFIT enlisted the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union (MCLU) after he was arrested twice for begging in Harvard Square. The MCLU will contend that a state law prohibiting begging is unconstitutional...
...MCLU does win, said Wunsch, the citywill pay attorney fees and damages to Benefit "andthe class that he represents," she said,explaining that others who have been arrested forpanhandling could be compensated...
...MCLU, too, believes that the law is "an issue of liberties." Wunsch has contacted city officials "a number of times" to recommend that police arrests be limited to those homeless people who threaten or harass passers-by, she said. The city manager's office told Wunsch that a memo would be sent to the police department, but "people go on being arrested," said Wunsch...
...MCLU says it will have won the case if thecourt either strikes down the statute altogetheror decides that Cambridge's application of the lawto Benefit is unconstitutional...