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Judge Strikes Down Panhandling Law:  A federal district judge has ruled that a Sacramento ordinance prohibiting aggressive panhandling in designated places, like ATMs, violates the First Amendment.  Stan Stanton of the Sacramento Bee reports that U.S. District Judge Morrison England, Jr. issued a preliminary injunction against the ordinance, noting that while aggressive panhandling may be "bothersome" to some people, in his view, the law violated a person's right to free speech.  While the correctness of this holding may be determined on appeal, it can be argued that the judge's ruling conflicts with the Supreme Court's 1992 holding in Krishna v. Lee  and the California Supreme Court's 2010 holding in Krishna v. California.  Both of these decisions seem to support content neutral, time, place, and manner restrictions. 

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