The full panel of the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Redondo Beach ordinance aimed at clearing the streets of day laborers looking for work was too restrictive of free speech. The court wrote, “[The ordiance] is not narrowly tailored because [it] restricts significantly more speech than is necessary, and because the city could have employed various less restrictive alternatives to achieve its goals.”
A dissenting judge said the law restrict speech but sought to regulate conduct such as harassment of females and urinating on the street. -db
From the Courthouse News Service, September 16, 2011 by Tim Hull.