It’s the right of homeless folks in L.A.’s “Skid Row” area to not have their personal belongings seized if they leave them unattended for a while, but we will take what we can get.
In Lavan v. City of Los Angeles, No.11-56253 (Sep. 5, 2012), the Ninth Circuit held:
We conclude that the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments protect homeless persons from government seizure and summary destruction of their unabandoned, but momentarily unattended, personal property.
Read more below. More on the takings angle to the case from the Volokh Conspiracy.
Lavan v. City of Los Angeles, No. 11-56253 (9th Cir. Sep. 5, 2012)