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The State of Alabama argued before a federal three-judge panel Wednesday that it should reverse the decision of a lower court finding its anti-panhandling laws unconstitutional.
Jonathan Singleton, a homeless man from Montgomery, brought the class-action lawsuit in 2020 after being arrested numerous times under the statutes. The Court issued a final order in 2023 finding that the state’s laws violated the First Amendment and permanently enjoining enforcement of the law…