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Weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its favor, the City Council of Grants Pass, Oregon, voted unanimously to adopt a new camping resolution to help address homelessness.
Grants Pass, Oregon, sought to impose anti-camping, anti-sleeping, and parking exclusion ordinances to dissuade homeless individuals from residing on its public land.. The Oregon Law Center, which supports low-income Oregonians, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Debra Blake (1959–2021) in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in October 2018. [4]
The Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of municipal ordinances that punish homeless people for camping on public property when they have nowhere else to go.
The decision could affect how cities nationwide address homelessness in their communities. ... The Grants Pass case arrived at the Supreme Court after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided ...
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The 2023 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 2, 2023, and concluded October 6, 2024. The table below illustrates which opinion was filed by each justice in each case and which justices joined each opinion.
The case started in the rural Oregon town of Grants Pass, which began fining people $295 for sleeping outside as the cost of housing escalated and tents sprung up in the city’s public parks.
The ordinance states that it is consistent with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson and the Washington State Supreme Court decision in Potter v. Lacey.