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NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Lawyers say the city of New York has agreed to pay a $15 million to settle with 22,000 people arrested under a loitering law found unconstitutional.
Katherine Rosenfeld, an attorney for the plaintiffs in the class-action suit, said the loitering law, passed in 1964, was ruled unconstitutional three times by state and federal courts in the 1980s and 1990s but the New York Police Department kept on using it to arrest people, many of them homeless panhandlers, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday.
"Thousands of New Yorkers were arrested and forced to defend themselves in court, and even serve time in jail, for completely legal behavior," Rosenfeld said.
"After courts struck down these loitering laws as unconstitutional, the NYPD should never have charged a single person under them."
She said the $15 million settlement was reached Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
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