MORGANTOWN -- An attorney representing the three Monongalia County Commissioners as well as the county’s former sheriff has asked a judge to throw out the lawsuit challenging the legality of the county's Pedestrian and Vehicle Safety Ordinance. Tiffany Durst, with Pullin, Fowler, ...
City takes panhandling law off the books Last week, the Morgantown City Council voted to repeal a 2005 panhandling law that is the basis for a federal lawsuit against the city brought by Mountain State Justice. City Code Section 371.10 is a true “panhandling” prohibition in a way ...
MORGANTOWN -- Morgantown City Council will consider repealing the “panhandling” ordinance that recently made the city the target of a federal lawsuit. On Friday, the city posted the agenda for council’s May 7 meeting. Included in that agenda is “An ordinance repealing City ...
MORGANTOWN — Mountain State Justice, a statewide nonprofit legal services and advocacy organization, has filed suit against the city of Morgantown in the Northern District of West Virginia, claiming the city’s enforcement of a 2005 panhandling ordinance is ...
Following Monongalia County Commission’s vote to pass the Ordinance Regulating Pedestrian and Vehicle Safety — which has been referred to as the “anti-panhandling” ordinance — area civil rights groups issued a letter condemning it. The groups maintain the ordinance unfairly ...
MORGANTOWN -- It doesn’t outlaw panhandling, they noted. Or curtail speech. It doesn’t criminalize poverty or homelessness. It addresses a specific safety issue — people loitering in the road. After making these points in turn on Wednesday, members ...