Word: mta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case grew out of attempts by the Metropolitan Transit Authority to crack down on panhandling in New York City subway cars and stations, but the ruling has nationwide implications. Seeking to stem the proliferation of needy and homeless in a system that serves 1 billion passengers a year, the MTA last October launched its so-called Operation Enforcement. Within weeks, two homeless panhandlers -- Papa Joe Walley, 50, and William Young Jr., 40 -- complained to the Legal Action Center for the Homeless that they were being harassed by the police while begging in the subway. The center filed a class action...
...ruling, handed down two weeks ago, Judge Sand indicated that the MTA had gone too far by imposing a total ban instead of specifying the times, places and types of begging that it considered out of bounds. "While the government has an interest in preserving the quality of urban life," wrote Sand, "this interest must be discounted where the regulation has the principal effect of keeping a public problem involving human beings out of sight and therefore out of mind...