ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A homeless man who begs for money at the corner of Lindbergh Boulevard and Interstate 55 is suing St. Louis County, after police gave him 38 tickets.
Robert Fernandez, a Mehlville High graduate in his mid-40s, is hoping to prove St. Louis County is violating his constitutional right of free speech.
That's the way his attorney Bevis Schock argues it. Schock is the same attorney who took down Missouri's red-light camera system.
The federal suit filed earlier this summer seeks a preliminary injunction preventing St. Louis County from enforcing its law against soliciting.
Response from St. Louis County is due on Tuesday, Sept. 3.
The County Counselor's office declined to comment on the pending litigation.