What the Supreme Court Encampments Decision Means for ...

Supreme Court ruling will make homelessness much worse

In a historically shameful move, the Supreme Court has ruled that cities can arrest and fine people for sleeping outside when there are no ...

Breaking down Supreme Court decisions on Jan. 6 cases, homeless ...

The justices upheld a law making it a crime for unhoused people to camp in public areas like parks, sidewalks and plazas.

Supreme Court issues ruling on homeless camping bans - WTHR

Gavin Newsom said the decision gives state and local officials authority to clear “unsafe encampments” from the streets under policies that ...

US Supreme Court says cities can punish people for sleeping in ...

Those decisions did allow cities to restrict when and where people could sleep and even to shut down encampments – but they said cities first ...

Supreme Court gives cities in California and beyond more power to ...

The much-anticipated decision overturns a prior influential Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, and means cities no longer are prohibited ...

What the SCOTUS Decision on Homeless Encampments Means for ...

LOS ANGELES—In a highly anticipated ruling, the Supreme Court on June 28 held that cities can restrict homeless encampments on public ...

ACLU Responds to Supreme Court Decision that Cities Can Punish ...

The court's decision reverses a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion that punishing unhoused people for sleeping in public when they have no ...

New SCOTUS ruling allows cities to ban homeless encampments

In a significant ruling, the US Supreme Court has empowered cities to ban homeless encampments even if no shelter space is available.

Landmark Supreme Court decision criminalizes homelessness

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that cities must allow public camping to those who are “involuntarily homeless.” The court ...

U.S. Supreme Court will review homeless encampment case

Up for consideration is a challenge to a 2018 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling — and a related 2022 court decision — that found it is " ...

Does banning camping by homeless people violate Eighth ...

Both 9th Circuit cases cited Supreme Court precedent that said the government can't punish people for being addicts because it is an involuntary ...

Facts and Case Summary — Korematsu v. U.S. | United States Courts

... camps that were set up and occupied in about 14 weeks. ... The district court ruling cleared Korematsu's name, but the Supreme Court decision still stood as ...

Blue America pleads for the Supreme Court's help on homelessness

This is no coincidence. Rulings of the 9th Circuit make it hard for local officials to control homeless encampments, according to two dozen ...

Supreme Court to weigh whether cities can punish homeless for ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday is slated to hear oral arguments on a case that will impact how cities can respond to homeless encampments ...

On this day, the Supreme Court issues the Korematsu decision

Korematsu was arrested for going into hiding in Northern California after refusing to go to an internment camp. Korematsu appealed his ...

Supreme Court weighs bans targeting homeless encampments

The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in Grants Pass v. Johnson, which involves bans on homeless encampments and where people can sleep.

The Fight Continues Against Criminalization of Homelessness

The Supreme Court's momentous ruling last month in the Grants Pass v. Johnson case removed a key protection for unhoused people, allowing criminalization even ...

SCOTUS Rules on Homelessness as DOJ Reveals a War on the Poor

“Regardless of any future Supreme Court ruling, the law” is clear that “officers lack reasonable suspicion to stop people for merely sleeping on ...

Justices uphold laws targeting homelessness with criminal penalties

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld ordinances in a southwest Oregon city that prohibit people who are homeless from using blankets, pillows, or cardboard boxes.

Supreme Court Will Hear Case About Homeless Encampments ...

The ruling was binding on West Coast cities, where rising rates of unsheltered homelessness that later spiked during the pandemic were driving ...