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Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville

Papachristou v. Jacksonville, 405 U.S. 156 (1972), was a United States Supreme Court case resulting in a Jacksonville vagrancy ordinance being declared unconstitutionally vague. The case was argued on December 8, 1971, and decided on February 24, 1972. The respondent was the city of Jacksonville, Florida.

Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
Argued December 8, 1971
Decided February 24, 1972
Full case nameMargaret Papachristou et al. v. City of Jacksonville
Docket no.70-5030
Citations405 U.S. 156 (more)
92 S. Ct. 839; 31 L. Ed. 2d 110; 1972 U.S. LEXIS 84
Case history
PriorBrown v. City of Jacksonville, 236 So. 2d 141 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1970); cert. granted, 403 U.S. 917 (1971).
Holding
The court held that a Jacksonville vagrancy ordinance was unconstitutionally vague because it did not provide fair notice of forbidden behavior and it encouraged arbitrary arrests and convictions.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger
Associate Justices
William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan Jr.
Potter Stewart · Byron White
Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinion
MajorityDouglas, joined by Burger, Brennan, Stewart, White, Marshall, Blackmun
Powell and Rehnquist took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Facts edit

Eight defendants were involved in this case.[1] Each had been convicted of violating a Jacksonville, Florida, vagrancy ordinance that criminalized vagrancy, loitering, and related activity.[1]

Vagrancy ordinance edit

Jacksonville's ordinance at the time of the defendants' arrests and conviction was the following:[2]

Rogues and vagabonds, or dissolute persons who go about begging, common gamblers, persons who use juggling or unlawful games or plays, common drunkards, common night walkers, thieves, pilferers or pickpockets, traders in stolen property, lewd, wanton and lascivious persons, keepers of gambling places, common railers and brawlers, persons wandering or strolling around from place to place without any lawful purpose or object, habitual loafers, disorderly persons, persons neglecting all lawful business and habitually spending their time by frequenting houses of ill fame, gaming houses, or places where alcoholic beverages are sold or served, persons able to work but habitually living upon the earnings of their wives or minor children shall be deemed vagrants and, upon conviction in the Municipal Court shall be punished as provided for Class D offenses.

Class D offenses at the time of these arrests and convictions were punishable by 90 days' imprisonment, a $500 fine, or both.[2]

Defendants' conduct edit

Four of the eight defendants—Margaret Papachristou, Betty Calloway, Eugene Eddie Melton, and Leonard Johnson—were charged with "prowling by auto" under the Jacksonville vagrancy ordinance.[3] Papachristou and Calloway were white women; Melton and Johnson, black men. At the time of their arrest, which was early on a Sunday morning, they were driving in Calloway's car in Jacksonville.[3] The arresting officers denied that the racial makeup of the car's passengers was a factor in the arrest; rather, the officers claimed that they arrested the defendants because they had stopped near a used-car lot that had been broken into several times.[4] The morning they were arrested, however, there had been no evidence of breaking and entering.[4] Shortly after the defendants' arrest, someone from the police department had called Papachristou's parents and told them she had "been out with a negro."[5]

A fifth defendant, Jimmy Lee Smith, was charged with being a "vagabond" under the vagrancy ordinance.[3] He and a companion had been waiting for a friend to lend them a car when he was arrested.[4] It was before 10 a.m. on a weekday.[4] It was a cold morning, so Smith and his companion had walked into a dry cleaning store to wait.[4] The dry cleaning store owners asked Smith and his companion to leave, and they did.[4] Smith and his companion then walked back and forth a few times over a two-block stretch looking for their friend.[4] The dry cleaning store owners became suspicious and contacted the police, who searched the two men.[4] The police found no weapon, but proceeded to arrest them.[4] The arresting officers said they arrested Smith and his companion because they didn't have identification and because they didn't believe their story that they were waiting for a friend.[4] Smith was also a "part-time organizer for a Negro political group" at the time he was arrested.[4]

Henry Edward Heath was arrested for being a "common thief" under the ordinance.[3] He had driven up to his girlfriend's home, where police officers were already in the process of arresting another man.[6] When he started to back out of the driveway, the officers told him to stop and get out of his car.[6] He did so, and officers searched him and his car.[6] The officers found nothing but arrested him, charging him with being a "common thief" because that was allegedly his reputation.[6] (Heath's co-defendant, who was not one of the eight defendants in the Papachristou case, had been charged with loitering for standing in the driveway; the officers conceded that he was only doing so at their command.[6])

Thomas Owen Campbell was also charged with being a "common thief."[3] He was arrested as he was going home early one morning.[6] Officers claimed to have stopped him because he was driving quickly, but they did not charge him with speeding.[6]

Finally, Hugh Brown was charged with "disorderly loitering on street" and "disorderly conduct -- resisting arrest with violence."[3] He was arrested when a police officer saw him leave a hotel.[6] The officer summoned Brown to his police cruiser and began to search him.[6] A police witness later testified he had a reputation for being a "thief, narcotics pusher, and generally opprobrious character."[6] As the officer was searching Brown, he touched a pocket where Brown was storing heroin, and Brown began to resist.[6] Brown was charged under the Jacksonville vagrancy ordinance; he was also charged with a narcotics violation, but that was nolled.[7]

Procedural history edit

Jacksonville Municipal Court convictions edit

Each of the eight defendants in this case was first convicted in the Jacksonville, Florida, Municipal Court for violating Jacksonville's vagrancy ordinance.[8]

Circuit Court decisions edit

The municipal court convictions were then affirmed at the state trial court level.[8] A Florida Circuit Court judge held that the convictions were not unconstitutional.[8]

Brown v. City of Jacksonville edit

After losing in municipal court and at the trial court, the defendants sought review in one of Florida's intermediate appellate courts, the District Court of Appeal of Florida, First Circuit.[8] The case at this phase was named Brown v. City of Jacksonville after defendant Hugh Brown; it would later be renamed after Margaret Papachristou as lead petitioner.

The three-judge panel unanimously dismissed the defendants' petition for review, on June 9, 1970.[9]

The appellate court held that the trial court had not exceeded its authority or failed to uphold the law when it affirmed the defendants' municipal court convictions.[10] Rather, the court explained that the trial court had properly followed existing Florida state law at that time, given that in a previous case, Johnson v. State,[11] the Florida Supreme Court had upheld the constitutionality of a statute similar to the vagrancy ordinance at issue.[10]

Writ of certiorari to U.S. Supreme Court edit

On June 14, 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petitioners' petition for writ of certiorari.[12]

Decision edit

Justice Douglas delivered the opinion of the court.[1] It was a 7-0 decision, with Justices Powell and Rehnquist not taking part in deciding the case.[13]

Holding edit

The Supreme Court held that Jacksonville's vagrancy ordinance was unconstitutionally vague.

Reasoning edit

The vagrancy ordinance was unconstitutionally "void for vagueness" for two reasons.[14] First, it failed to provide fair notice to individuals about what conduct was forbidden by the law.[14] Second, it encouraged arbitrary arrests and convictions.[14]

Insufficient notice edit

The Court cited a series of Supreme Court precedent standing for the proposition that a law must give fair notice about what conduct it prohibits, including Lanzetta v. New Jersey, Connally v. General Construction Co., and United States v. L. Cohen Grocery Co.[14]

The Court reasoned that the Jacksonville ordinance did not give sufficient notice about what was forbidden and that, as written, it could in fact criminalize a variety of innocent activities.

For example, the ordinance forbid "habitually living without visible means of support," which the Court noted may be involuntary.[15] Similarly, the ordinance labeled as vagrants men who were "able to work but habitually liv[e] upon the earnings of their wives or minor children." The Court reasoned that this would encompass both men who were unemployed due to a recession or structural employment, as well as men who had married rich women.[15]

The ordinance also prohibited "nightwalking," which the Court observed that many people do simply when they can't sleep, and "wandering or strolling around from place to place without any lawful purpose or object."[16] Far from being criminal, the Court stated, wandering about with no purpose is an activity that is "historically part of the amenities of life as we have known them," and has even been extolled by the likes of Walt Whitman, Vachel Lindsay, and Henry Thoreau.[17] The Court held that such an activity is not only inherently innocent but also constitutionally protected.

Arbitrary arrests edit

The Court held that the vagrancy ordinance was also unconstitutionally vague because it gave too much arbitrary power to the police. ("Another aspect of the ordinance's vagueness appears when we focus, not on the lack of notice given a potential offender, but on the effect of the unfettered discretion it places in the hands of the Jacksonville police."[18])

The Court pointed to the dangers inherent in such a law, which could offer a pretense for a bad-faith arrest and which "permits and encourages an arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement of the law."[19] The Court acknowledged that poor people and minorities would often be the ones implicated by this kind of imprecise law, rendering the equal and even-handed administration of justice impossible.[20]

The Court also rejected the City's argument that the vagrancy ordinance allowed them to "nip crime in the bud" as "too extravagant to deserve extended treatment."[13]

Impact edit

"Loitering-plus" laws edit

Papachristou did not strike down loitering and vagrancy laws altogether. Rather, by declaring Jacksonville's ordinance unconstitutionally vague, the decision imposed clarity requirements on future laws of this type. It also strongly suggested that criminalization of "mere" loitering or vagrancy would be unconstitutional.

Thus, in response to Papachristou, many local governments amended their loitering and vagrancy laws in an attempt to make them constitutional.[21][22] Cities no longer prohibited simply loitering or wandering around but instead enacted so-called "loitering-plus" laws that imposed additional elements.[21][22][23]

For example, some loitering-plus laws require one or more of the following: that the individual lack an apparent or sufficient purpose for loitering, that the individual fails to give a satisfactory explanation for loitering, that the individual fails to obey a police order to disperse, that the individual obstructs others from passing, and/or that the individual constitutes a threat to public safety.[21]

Examples of loitering-plus laws edit

Examples of loitering-plus laws that municipalities enacted or kept on the books after the Papachristou decision include:[21]

  • a Florida ordinance forbidding loitering or prowling "in a place, at a time or in a manner not usual for law-abiding individuals, under circumstances that warrant a justifiable and reasonable alarm or immediate concern for the safety of persons or property"
  • an Iowa ordinance forbidding individuals "to collect, assemble, or group together, and after [doing so] . . . to stand, or loiter . . . to the hindrance or obstruction to free passage of any person or persons"
  • an Illinois ordinance forbidding any habitual drunkard, person known to be a drug addict or prostitute, or person previously convicted of a felony to congregate in public with other people of these classes

City of Chicago v. Morales edit

The loitering-plus laws were still subject to the same judicial scrutiny as previous ordinances that prohibited mere loitering or vagrancy. In 1999, the ACLU challenged the constitutionality of Chicago's loitering-plus law, in a case called City of Chicago v. Morales.[24] The ACLU brought the case on behalf of 66 defendants who were arrested and prosecuted under the ordinance.

The ordinance at issue in that case, entitled the Gang Congregation Ordinance, forbade "criminal street gang members" from loitering in public places, defined as "remain[ing] in any one place with no apparent purpose."[24] Under the ordinance, a police officer who observed someone whom he or she reasonably believed to be a gang member loitering with one or more other people could order them to disperse. Anyone who did not obey would be considered in violation of the ordinance and subject to arrest.[24]

A plurality of the Supreme Court declared the Chicago ordinance unconstitutionally vague for similar reasons as had doomed the Jacksonville ordinance.[24]

Papachristou has been cited in over 1,500 opinions since 1972.[citation needed]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville, 405 U.S. 156, 156 (1972).
  2. ^ a b Papachristou, 405 U.S. at 156 n.1, quoting Jacksonville Ordinance Code s 1—8 (1965).
  3. ^ a b c d e f Papachristou, 405 U.S. at 158.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Papachristou, 405 U.S. at 159.
  5. ^ Petitioner's Brief, Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville, 1971 WL 133167 (U.S.), 7 (U.S., 2004).
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Papachristou, 405 U.S. at 160.
  7. ^ Papachristou, 405 U.S. at 161.
  8. ^ a b c d Brown v. City of Jacksonville, 236 So. 2d 141, 141 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1970).
  9. ^ Brown, 236 So. 2d at 142.
  10. ^ a b Brown, 236 So. 2d at 141-42.
  11. ^ See Johnson v. State, 202 So. 2d 852 (Fla. 1967).
  12. ^ Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville, 403 U.S. 917 (1971).
  13. ^ a b Papachristou, 405 U.S. at 171.
  14. ^ a b c d Papachristou, 405 U.S. at 162.
  15. ^ a b Papachristou, 405 U.S. at 163.
  16. ^ Papachristou, 405 U.S. at 163-64.
  17. ^ Papachristou, 405 U.S. at 164.
  18. ^ Papachristou, 405 U.S. at 168.
  19. ^ Papachristou, 405 U.S. at 170.
  20. ^ Papachristou, 405 U.S. at 170-71.
  21. ^ a b c d Peter W. Poulos, Chicago's Ban on Gang Loitering: Making Sense of Vagueness and Overbreadth in Loitering Laws, 83 Calif. L. Rev. 379 (1995).
  22. ^ a b Joel D. Berg, The Troubled Constitutionality of Antigang Loitering Laws, 69 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 461 (1993). Available at: https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/vol69/iss2/11
  23. ^ Aichinger, Alex. "Loitering Laws". www.mtsu.edu. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  24. ^ a b c d Chicago v. Morales, 527 U.S. 41 (1999).

Further reading edit

External links edit

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Papachristou v Jacksonville 405 U S 156 1972 was a United States Supreme Court case resulting in a Jacksonville vagrancy ordinance being declared unconstitutionally vague The case was argued on December 8 1971 and decided on February 24 1972 The respondent was the city of Jacksonville Florida Papachristou v City of JacksonvilleSupreme Court of the United StatesArgued December 8 1971Decided February 24 1972Full case nameMargaret Papachristou et al v City of JacksonvilleDocket no 70 5030Citations405 U S 156 more 92 S Ct 839 31 L Ed 2d 110 1972 U S LEXIS 84Case historyPriorBrown v City of Jacksonville 236 So 2d 141 Fla Dist Ct App 1970 cert granted 403 U S 917 1971 HoldingThe court held that a Jacksonville vagrancy ordinance was unconstitutionally vague because it did not provide fair notice of forbidden behavior and it encouraged arbitrary arrests and convictions Court membershipChief Justice Warren E Burger Associate Justices William O Douglas William J Brennan Jr Potter Stewart Byron WhiteThurgood Marshall Harry BlackmunLewis F Powell Jr William RehnquistCase opinionMajorityDouglas joined by Burger Brennan Stewart White Marshall BlackmunPowell and Rehnquist took no part in the consideration or decision of the case Contents 1 Facts 1 1 Vagrancy ordinance 1 2 Defendants conduct 2 Procedural history 2 1 Jacksonville Municipal Court convictions 2 2 Circuit Court decisions 2 3 Brown v City of Jacksonville 2 4 Writ of certiorari to U S Supreme Court 3 Decision 3 1 Holding 3 2 Reasoning 3 2 1 Insufficient notice 3 2 2 Arbitrary arrests 4 Impact 4 1 Loitering plus laws 4 1 1 Examples of loitering plus laws 4 2 City of Chicago v Morales 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksFacts editEight defendants were involved in this case 1 Each had been convicted of violating a Jacksonville Florida vagrancy ordinance that criminalized vagrancy loitering and related activity 1 Vagrancy ordinance editJacksonville s ordinance at the time of the defendants arrests and conviction was the following 2 Rogues and vagabonds or dissolute persons who go about begging common gamblers persons who use juggling or unlawful games or plays common drunkards common night walkers thieves pilferers or pickpockets traders in stolen property lewd wanton and lascivious persons keepers of gambling places common railers and brawlers persons wandering or strolling around from place to place without any lawful purpose or object habitual loafers disorderly persons persons neglecting all lawful business and habitually spending their time by frequenting houses of ill fame gaming houses or places where alcoholic beverages are sold or served persons able to work but habitually living upon the earnings of their wives or minor children shall be deemed vagrants and upon conviction in the Municipal Court shall be punished as provided for Class D offenses Class D offenses at the time of these arrests and convictions were punishable by 90 days imprisonment a 500 fine or both 2 Defendants conduct edit Four of the eight defendants Margaret Papachristou Betty Calloway Eugene Eddie Melton and Leonard Johnson were charged with prowling by auto under the Jacksonville vagrancy ordinance 3 Papachristou and Calloway were white women Melton and Johnson black men At the time of their arrest which was early on a Sunday morning they were driving in Calloway s car in Jacksonville 3 The arresting officers denied that the racial makeup of the car s passengers was a factor in the arrest rather the officers claimed that they arrested the defendants because they had stopped near a used car lot that had been broken into several times 4 The morning they were arrested however there had been no evidence of breaking and entering 4 Shortly after the defendants arrest someone from the police department had called Papachristou s parents and told them she had been out with a negro 5 A fifth defendant Jimmy Lee Smith was charged with being a vagabond under the vagrancy ordinance 3 He and a companion had been waiting for a friend to lend them a car when he was arrested 4 It was before 10 a m on a weekday 4 It was a cold morning so Smith and his companion had walked into a dry cleaning store to wait 4 The dry cleaning store owners asked Smith and his companion to leave and they did 4 Smith and his companion then walked back and forth a few times over a two block stretch looking for their friend 4 The dry cleaning store owners became suspicious and contacted the police who searched the two men 4 The police found no weapon but proceeded to arrest them 4 The arresting officers said they arrested Smith and his companion because they didn t have identification and because they didn t believe their story that they were waiting for a friend 4 Smith was also a part time organizer for a Negro political group at the time he was arrested 4 Henry Edward Heath was arrested for being a common thief under the ordinance 3 He had driven up to his girlfriend s home where police officers were already in the process of arresting another man 6 When he started to back out of the driveway the officers told him to stop and get out of his car 6 He did so and officers searched him and his car 6 The officers found nothing but arrested him charging him with being a common thief because that was allegedly his reputation 6 Heath s co defendant who was not one of the eight defendants in the Papachristou case had been charged with loitering for standing in the driveway the officers conceded that he was only doing so at their command 6 Thomas Owen Campbell was also charged with being a common thief 3 He was arrested as he was going home early one morning 6 Officers claimed to have stopped him because he was driving quickly but they did not charge him with speeding 6 Finally Hugh Brown was charged with disorderly loitering on street and disorderly conduct resisting arrest with violence 3 He was arrested when a police officer saw him leave a hotel 6 The officer summoned Brown to his police cruiser and began to search him 6 A police witness later testified he had a reputation for being a thief narcotics pusher and generally opprobrious character 6 As the officer was searching Brown he touched a pocket where Brown was storing heroin and Brown began to resist 6 Brown was charged under the Jacksonville vagrancy ordinance he was also charged with a narcotics violation but that was nolled 7 Procedural history editJacksonville Municipal Court convictions edit Each of the eight defendants in this case was first convicted in the Jacksonville Florida Municipal Court for violating Jacksonville s vagrancy ordinance 8 Circuit Court decisions edit The municipal court convictions were then affirmed at the state trial court level 8 A Florida Circuit Court judge held that the convictions were not unconstitutional 8 Brown v City of Jacksonville edit After losing in municipal court and at the trial court the defendants sought review in one of Florida s intermediate appellate courts the District Court of Appeal of Florida First Circuit 8 The case at this phase was named Brown v City of Jacksonville after defendant Hugh Brown it would later be renamed after Margaret Papachristou as lead petitioner The three judge panel unanimously dismissed the defendants petition for review on June 9 1970 9 The appellate court held that the trial court had not exceeded its authority or failed to uphold the law when it affirmed the defendants municipal court convictions 10 Rather the court explained that the trial court had properly followed existing Florida state law at that time given that in a previous case Johnson v State 11 the Florida Supreme Court had upheld the constitutionality of a statute similar to the vagrancy ordinance at issue 10 Writ of certiorari to U S Supreme Court edit On June 14 1971 the U S Supreme Court granted the petitioners petition for writ of certiorari 12 Decision editJustice Douglas delivered the opinion of the court 1 It was a 7 0 decision with Justices Powell and Rehnquist not taking part in deciding the case 13 Holding edit The Supreme Court held that Jacksonville s vagrancy ordinance was unconstitutionally vague Reasoning edit The vagrancy ordinance was unconstitutionally void for vagueness for two reasons 14 First it failed to provide fair notice to individuals about what conduct was forbidden by the law 14 Second it encouraged arbitrary arrests and convictions 14 Insufficient notice edit The Court cited a series of Supreme Court precedent standing for the proposition that a law must give fair notice about what conduct it prohibits including Lanzetta v New Jersey Connally v General Construction Co and United States v L Cohen Grocery Co 14 The Court reasoned that the Jacksonville ordinance did not give sufficient notice about what was forbidden and that as written it could in fact criminalize a variety of innocent activities For example the ordinance forbid habitually living without visible means of support which the Court noted may be involuntary 15 Similarly the ordinance labeled as vagrants men who were able to work but habitually liv e upon the earnings of their wives or minor children The Court reasoned that this would encompass both men who were unemployed due to a recession or structural employment as well as men who had married rich women 15 The ordinance also prohibited nightwalking which the Court observed that many people do simply when they can t sleep and wandering or strolling around from place to place without any lawful purpose or object 16 Far from being criminal the Court stated wandering about with no purpose is an activity that is historically part of the amenities of life as we have known them and has even been extolled by the likes of Walt Whitman Vachel Lindsay and Henry Thoreau 17 The Court held that such an activity is not only inherently innocent but also constitutionally protected Arbitrary arrests edit The Court held that the vagrancy ordinance was also unconstitutionally vague because it gave too much arbitrary power to the police Another aspect of the ordinance s vagueness appears when we focus not on the lack of notice given a potential offender but on the effect of the unfettered discretion it places in the hands of the Jacksonville police 18 The Court pointed to the dangers inherent in such a law which could offer a pretense for a bad faith arrest and which permits and encourages an arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement of the law 19 The Court acknowledged that poor people and minorities would often be the ones implicated by this kind of imprecise law rendering the equal and even handed administration of justice impossible 20 The Court also rejected the City s argument that the vagrancy ordinance allowed them to nip crime in the bud as too extravagant to deserve extended treatment 13 Impact edit Loitering plus laws edit Papachristou did not strike down loitering and vagrancy laws altogether Rather by declaring Jacksonville s ordinance unconstitutionally vague the decision imposed clarity requirements on future laws of this type It also strongly suggested that criminalization of mere loitering or vagrancy would be unconstitutional Thus in response to Papachristou many local governments amended their loitering and vagrancy laws in an attempt to make them constitutional 21 22 Cities no longer prohibited simply loitering or wandering around but instead enacted so called loitering plus laws that imposed additional elements 21 22 23 For example some loitering plus laws require one or more of the following that the individual lack an apparent or sufficient purpose for loitering that the individual fails to give a satisfactory explanation for loitering that the individual fails to obey a police order to disperse that the individual obstructs others from passing and or that the individual constitutes a threat to public safety 21 Examples of loitering plus laws edit Examples of loitering plus laws that municipalities enacted or kept on the books after the Papachristou decision include 21 a Florida ordinance forbidding loitering or prowling in a place at a time or in a manner not usual for law abiding individuals under circumstances that warrant a justifiable and reasonable alarm or immediate concern for the safety of persons or property an Iowa ordinance forbidding individuals to collect assemble or group together and after doing so to stand or loiter to the hindrance or obstruction to free passage of any person or persons an Illinois ordinance forbidding any habitual drunkard person known to be a drug addict or prostitute or person previously convicted of a felony to congregate in public with other people of these classes City of Chicago v Morales edit The loitering plus laws were still subject to the same judicial scrutiny as previous ordinances that prohibited mere loitering or vagrancy In 1999 the ACLU challenged the constitutionality of Chicago s loitering plus law in a case called City of Chicago v Morales 24 The ACLU brought the case on behalf of 66 defendants who were arrested and prosecuted under the ordinance The ordinance at issue in that case entitled the Gang Congregation Ordinance forbade criminal street gang members from loitering in public places defined as remain ing in any one place with no apparent purpose 24 Under the ordinance a police officer who observed someone whom he or she reasonably believed to be a gang member loitering with one or more other people could order them to disperse Anyone who did not obey would be considered in violation of the ordinance and subject to arrest 24 A plurality of the Supreme Court declared the Chicago ordinance unconstitutionally vague for similar reasons as had doomed the Jacksonville ordinance 24 Papachristou has been cited in over 1 500 opinions since 1972 citation needed See also editList of United States Supreme Court cases volume 405 Kolender v Lawson 461 U S 352 1983 Vagueness doctrineReferences edit a b c Papachristou v City of Jacksonville 405 U S 156 156 1972 a b Papachristou 405 U S at 156 n 1 quoting Jacksonville Ordinance Code s 1 8 1965 a b c d e f Papachristou 405 U S at 158 a b c d e f g h i j k Papachristou 405 U S at 159 Petitioner s Brief Papachristou v City of Jacksonville 1971 WL 133167 U S 7 U S 2004 a b c d e f g h i j k Papachristou 405 U S at 160 Papachristou 405 U S at 161 a b c d Brown v City of Jacksonville 236 So 2d 141 141 Fla Dist Ct App 1970 Brown 236 So 2d at 142 a b Brown 236 So 2d at 141 42 See Johnson v State 202 So 2d 852 Fla 1967 Papachristou v City of Jacksonville 403 U S 917 1971 a b Papachristou 405 U S at 171 a b c d Papachristou 405 U S at 162 a b Papachristou 405 U S at 163 Papachristou 405 U S at 163 64 Papachristou 405 U S at 164 Papachristou 405 U S at 168 Papachristou 405 U S at 170 Papachristou 405 U S at 170 71 a b c d Peter W Poulos Chicago s Ban on Gang Loitering Making Sense of Vagueness and Overbreadth in Loitering Laws 83 Calif L Rev 379 1995 a b Joel D Berg The Troubled Constitutionality of Antigang Loitering Laws 69 Chi Kent L Rev 461 1993 Available at https scholarship kentlaw iit edu cklawreview vol69 iss2 11 Aichinger Alex Loitering Laws www mtsu edu Retrieved March 4 2019 a b c d Chicago v Morales 527 U S 41 1999 Further reading editMalone Mark 1982 Homelessness in a Modern Urban Setting Fordham Law Review 10 4 749 781 Available at https heinonline org HOL Page handle hein journals frdurb10 amp id 767 amp collection journals Pe ter W Poulos Chicago s Ban on Gang Loitering Making Sense of Vagueness and Overbreadth in Loitering Laws 83 Calif L Rev 379 1995 Available at https scholarship law berkeley edu cgi viewcontent cgi article 1696 amp context californialawreview Joel D Berg The Troubled Constitutionality of Antigang Loitering Laws 69 Chi Kent L Rev 461 1993 Available at https scholarship kentlaw iit edu cklawreview vol69 iss2 11 Validity of Vagrancy Statutes and Ordinances 25 A L R 3d 792 Originally published in 1969 External 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