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Supreme Court allows Oregon city policy that punishes homeless people for sleeping on public property
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Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans targeting homeless people sleeping outside
The Supreme Court has decided in favor of a small Oregon town that placed civil punishments on homeless people for sleeping in public spaces, finding 6-3 the punishments don't violate the Eighth Amendment. Former federal prosecutor Scott ... -
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Supreme Court says city's homeless camping ban not 'cruel and unusual' punishment
The Supreme Court ruled an Oregon city's ordinance to bar anyone without a permanent residency from sleeping outside doesn't amount to “cruel and unusual” punishment. -
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Supreme Court lets law stand that allows for ticketing of homeless people camping
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that cities can ticket homeless people for camping in public even when there is no alternative shelter available, a decision that could drastically alter the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans without a ... -
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US supreme court rules for January 6 rioter challenging obstruction charge – live
Justices voted 6-3 to weaken the statute used by January 6 prosecutors, which could possible affect hundreds of rioters’s convictions; Trump immunity case to be decided Monday as court announces that as last day of term. The supreme court has ... -
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Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Sleeping Outdoors in Homelessness Case
The case is likely to have broad ramifications for how cities across the country respond to homelessness. -
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Supreme Court allows camping bans targeting homeless encampments
The 6-3 decision from the court in the case known as City of Grants Pass v. Johnson is its most significant involving homelessness in decades. -
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Supreme Court Expands Cities' Power to Remove Homeless Camps
Justices rejected a claim that penalizing people with nowhere else to sleep is unconstitutionally cruel. -
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The high court loosened the restraints on city officials confronting homeless encampments.
The high court loosened the restraints on city officials confronting homeless encampments. -
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Supreme Court Allows, for Now, Emergency Abortions in Idaho
A majority of the justices voted to dismiss the case, reinstating a lower-court ruling that paused the state’s near-total abortion ban. The ruling mirrored a version inadvertently posted a day earlier.Abortion
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