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Martin v. Boise (full case name Robert Martin, Lawrence Lee Smith, Robert Anderson, Janet F. Bell, Pamela S. Hawkes, and Basil E. Humphrey v.City of Boise) was a 2018 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit regarding anti-camping ordinances targeting homeless people, effectively overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2024.
Homeless-rights activists hold a rally outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on April 22, 2024 in Washington, D.C., as the Supreme Court heard oral argument in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v.
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Friday that will allow cities to ban public camping will bolster Florida's recent move to hold local municipalities accountable for their homeless populations.. The ...
An advocate protests at a homeless camp adjacent to Heer Park as it is cleared up by the city in 2022. Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that paves the way for communities to more aggressively ...
In its decision, the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island analyzed Edward Caniglia's case on ten factors (Fourth Amendment law, the community caretaking exception, qualified immunity, the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, Article I, § 22 of the Constitution of Rhode Island, Fourteenth Amendment Due Process, Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection, the ...
Callahan v. Carey was a landmark case in the New York County Supreme Court that established the duty of New York State to provide shelter for homeless men. It was brought in 1979 as a class action suit, the first such suit by advocates for the homeless in the United States, and settled with the negotiation in 1981 of a consent decree governing the provision of homeless shelters by New York City.
U.S. Supreme Court justices confronted the nation's homelessness crisis on Monday as they wrestled with the legality of local laws used against people who camp on public streets and parks in a ...
(Reuters) -Civil rights groups warned that Friday's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of punishing people for sleeping outdoors would exacerbate homelessness, while ...