Thursday, July 12, 2012

GREAT NEWS! Judge blocks enforcement of homeless feeding ban

Judge blocks enforcement of homeless feeding ban

By Joseph A. Slobodzian
Inquirer Staff Writer
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Volunteers distribute food outside a Philadelphia Department of Public Health hearing in March on rules banning outdoor food distribution.
 (picture from http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/06/156328035/philadelphia-bans-serving-food-to-the-homeless-in-public)

 Mayor Nutter's plan to take distribution of free food to homeless people out of the parks to the front of City Hall and, ultimately, indoors was blocked this morning by a federal judge.
Ruling from the bench after two days of testimony and an hour of oral argument, U.S. District Judge William H. Yohn said he saw no evidence feeding homeless people outside City Hall was any better or more dignified than on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

For full article http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20120712_Judge_blocks_enforcement_of_homeless_feeding_ban.html
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