The head of Atlanta’s street vendors association has sued the city for how it continued to bar him from working on public property even after a judge declared a vending restriction law unconstitutional in 2012.
Last year Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shawn LaGrua, who struck the law, was considering holding Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and Police Chief George Turner in contempt for repeatedly ignoring her rulings that the vendors be allowed to return to sites around Turner Field and downtown. But LaGrua ruled in November that the City Council’s passage of a new ordinance—which allowed some vendors to return but again barred those who had worked outside the stadium—rendered the contempt action moot.
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