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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 .
The justices ruled 6-3 to overturn a lower court's decision that found that enforcing the ordinances in the city of Grants Pass when no shelter space is available for the homeless violates the U.S. C
Multiple concurrences and dissents within a case are numbered, with joining votes numbered accordingly. Justices frequently join multiple opinions in a single case; each vote is subdivided accordingly. An asterisk ( * ) in the Court's opinion denotes that it was only a majority in part or a plurality.
The Grants Pass case arrived at the Supreme Court after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the city’s homeless residents. The appeals court ruled 2-1 that the city, which is about ...
The Supreme Court’s decision is expected in or before June. In 2013, the Grants Pass city council decided to impose $295 fines for using blankets, pillows or cardboard boxes to sleep within the ...
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.
The answer should be obvious to all, but few believe that is the conclusion the Supreme Court will come to when it decides Grants Pass v. Johnson, which will be argued on April 22.
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