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    Steven Long and his attorney Ali Bilow after a State Court of Appeals hearing in Seattle on Thursday November 7, 2019. 
Long, took the city to court when the truck he was living in was impounded. A county judge ruled in his favor based on the Homestead Act, but the city has taken the case to the State Court of Appeals. 

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