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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.
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]
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 ...
The small Oregon city at the heart of a recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows cities to enforce outdoor sleeping bans has voted to prohibit camping but establish certain areas ...
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 Supreme Court will consider whether city ordinances that bar homeless people from camping on public property violate constitutional protections against "cruel and unusual punishment."
Los Angeles-based attorney Theane Evangelis, representing the Oregon city, said the problem of homelessness has been made worse in the West because of U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rulings ...
(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 ...