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  2. Loitering - Wikipedia

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    Loitering is the act of standing or waiting around idly without apparent purpose in some public places. [ 1 ] While the laws regarding loitering have been challenged and changed over time, loitering of suspect people can be illegal in some jurisdictions and some specific circumstances.

  3. Sit-lie ordinance - Wikipedia

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    Critics argue that such ordinances are a criminalization of homelessness, a criminalization of ordinary activities – hence prone to selective enforcement – and unnecessary, since existing, narrowly targeted laws ban the undesirable activities such as aggressive begging, obstruction of sidewalks, loitering, and aggressive pursuit.

  4. Las Cruces' panhandling, loitering, shopping cart laws will ...

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    What Las Cruces will do to enforce solicitation, loitering laws. The "Standing or loitering on or near street or highway" ordinance makes it unlawful for any person to stand or loiter on busy ...

  5. Anti-homelessness legislation - Wikipedia

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    Anti-homeless architecture is an urban design strategy that is intended to discourage loitering, camping, and sleeping in public. [32] While this policy does not explicitly target homeless people, it restricts the ways in which people can use public spaces, which affects the homeless population.

  6. Are citizens’ arrests legal in Texas? State law is blurry and ...

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    Under Texas criminal law, you could face charges for unlawful restraint, kidnapping and even assault. Unlawful restraint for one is a Class A misdemeanor, which could result in jail time.

  7. Texas' Right-Wing Leaders Are Going To ‘Scary’ Lengths To ...

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    The Texas attorney general is using search warrants, undercover operations and more to intimidate Latinos, organizers said. Texas' Right-Wing Leaders Are Going To ‘Scary’ Lengths To Intimidate ...

  8. LGBTQ rights in Texas - Wikipedia

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    According to the advocacy organizations, the Family Equality Council and Equality Texas [52]: 9 and the non-profit legal services provider Texas Legal Services Center, same-sex couples are able to adopt as a couple if they are legally married. Supplemental birth certificates are issued or amended with the names of the same-sex couple shown as ...

  9. Texas ‘mutual combat’ law allows settling scores with fists ...

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    This means that dueling is still legal according the Texas penal code. The law states that any two individuals who feel the need to fight can agree to mutual combat through a signed, verbal or ...