Homeless New Yorker (@homeless-new.bsky.social)

On This Date: May 31, 2019 and 2022 #OnThisDate in 2019, the settlement in Mitchell v. City of Los Angeles was signed by the judge and filed. J. Otero awarded $645,000 as monetary damages and attorneys' fees. In addition: the injunction of April 13, 2016, was dissolved; the City was forbidden to seize property as part of a cleanup of an area within Skid Row and a one-block buffer zone surrounding it on three sides (the "Covered Area"), where homeless people’s property was located, absent an objectively reasonable belief that it was abandoned, presented an immediate threat to public health or safety, was evidence of a crime, or was contraband; https://homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/on-this-date-may-31-2019-and-2022/