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City of Grants Pass v. Johnson , 603 U.S. 520 (2024), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that local government ordinances with civil and criminal penalties for camping on public land do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment of homeless people .
On Monday, the Lakewood City Council passed an ordinance to prohibit public camping, mirroring the language of the Grants Pass v. Johnson decision. The ordinance gives Lakewood police officers the ...
“I would be surprised if there are very many apartments that you could find for less than $1,200 a month in Grants Pass,” Ed Johnson, an Oregon Law Center attorney representing the city’s ...
Grants Pass [63] However, in June 2024, the Supreme Court in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson , ruled that the Ninth Circuit had decided the case wrongly, and that "enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property does not constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment' prohibited by the Eighth Amendment."
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Grants Pass is a city in and the county seat of Josephine County, Oregon, United States. [7] The city is located on Interstate 5 , northwest of Medford , along the Rogue River . The population is 39,194 according to the 2020 census , making it the 15th most populous city in Oregon .
Johnson v. Eisentrager, 339 U.S. 763 (1950), was a major decision of the US Supreme Court, where it decided that US courts had no jurisdiction over German war criminals held in a US-administered prison in Germany. The prisoners had at no time been on American sovereign territory. [1] [2] [3]