City of Pompano Beach v. Capalbo

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• striking ordinance which declared that it was “unlawful for any person to lodge or sleep in, on, or about any automobile” on public property as “both unconstitutionally vague and over-broad”
• statute forbidding lodging and sleeping in vehicles in public areas — with language virtually identical to that of Clearwater ordinance — unconstitutionally vague and overbroad because of sleeping language
• words in a statute should not be construed as surplusage if reasonable construction which will give them some force and meaning is possible
• “Because a municipal council, like the legislature, would not knowingly enact an unconstitutional measure, appellate courts will indulge every reasonable presumption in favor of an ordinance’s constitutionality.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).