In letting a lower court ruling stand, the U.S. Supreme Court gave day laborers the right to solicit work from passing drivers.
Redondo Beach had banned the solicitation with criminal penalties, but the 9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals said that the solicitation was no different from others allowed such as children’s lemonade stands and that the law violated the laborers’ free speech rights. -db
From the San Francisco Chronicle, February 22, 2012, by Bob Elgelko.