Drug Dealers and Their Constitutional Rights

It’s not much of a secret that the City of San Francisco has over the years developed some serious social issues, what with open drug dealing and general homelessness plaguing certain areas of the city.  I won’t get into the politics of those problems, or even the social aspects involved.  But I do note that at least San Francisco’s City Attorney has attempted to do something about the drug dealing going on within San Francisco by filing lawsuits targeting some 28 known street-level drug dealers, seeking permanent injunctions ordering the defendants “to stay away from the proposed Tenderloin Drug Abatement Area and any area of the City and County of San Francisco where ‘(defendants have) engaged in the illegal sale of controlled substances.’”  In its suit, the City alleges that the defendants’ drug dealings constitute a public nuisance (Civ. Code §§ ....

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