A federal judge ruled, on First Amendment grounds, that the public library of Morristown, New Jersey, could not bar homeless people due to bad hygiene or because they intimidated other library patrons by staring at them.

Two days after the ruling, the Morristown Headquarters Plaza Hotel offered to enroll 41-year-old Richard Kreimer, the homeless man who originally filed suit against the library with the help of the ACLU, in its job program for the homeless. Kreimer refused. He decided instead to stay in the library, even after he had won almost $250,000 in his lawsuit. "Now that I've won the library suit," Kreimer exclaimed, "my demands will go higher. To the victor belongs the spoils."

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