AP
June 17, 2008
At least 74 of New Jersey's 566 municipalities are illegally enforcing ordinances that make public intoxication a crime even though such local laws were repealed by the state Legislature in 1975, according to a federal civil-rights lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed Friday in Camden, NJ, on behalf of Joseph McMullen, a Moorestown, NJ, man arrested for public intoxication last year in Maple Shade, NJ.
