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The court’s decision, siding with the Oregon mountain town of Grants Pass at the center of the case, opens the way for officials to limit homeless encampments and fine and arrest unhoused people ...
The Supreme Court's ruling Friday gives cities in California and the West more authority to restrict homeless encampments on ... “Today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court provides state and ...
Before the Supreme Court decision, some lower court judges citing the Ninth Circuit rulings blocked municipalities from evicting encampments unless there were enough shelter beds for its entire ...
The Supreme Court cleared the way for cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside in public places on Friday, overturning a California appeals court ruling that found such laws ...
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, 603 U.S. ___ (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. [1]
Last month the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that said governments could not force people to leave encampments if there weren't any shelter beds available. The case was the ...
While HUD reported 111,592 homeless minors in 2018, the United States Department of Education reported 1.3 million homeless minors in the 2016 – 2017 school year. [ 138 ] In 2019, the state of New York had the greatest number of homeless families, at 15,901. California had the second-greatest number of homeless families, at 7,044, followed by ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Friday anti-camping laws used by authorities in an Oregon city to stop homeless people from sleeping in public parks and public streets - a ...