The U.S. Supreme Court's impending decision on a homeless camping ban in an Oregon city could affect how Colorado cities enforce their own laws. Why it matters: The high court's decision could upend Denver's controversial urban camping ban — or reinforce its law if the court sides with Grants Pass,
I can’t even tell you the best constitutional argument against laws allowing governments to effectively criminalize homelessness, making it illegal for homeless people to use “bedding, sleeping bag, or other material used for bedding purposes,
A majority of U.S Supreme Court justices Monday seemed inclined to side with an Oregon town’s law that bans homeless people from sleeping outdoors, in a case that could have broad implications for local ordinances related to homelessness across the country.
In a Supreme Court showdown Monday over whether the homeless have a “right” to camp in public, almost no one mentioned the actual victims of that crazy idea — everyone who’s not homeless. Homeless advocates,
Without a credible threat of sanctions against public camping, officials have little leverage to induce people to take shelter beds when they are available.
A group of people experiencing homelessness in Portland filed a class action lawsuit which has been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide on whether enforcement constitutes as cruel and unusual punishment.
Liberal or conservative, under what value system does jailing people for trying to stay warm constitute a crime? We hope the Supreme Court justices grasp the profound difficulty of truly solving
The Court will soon decide whether the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, enacted a “cruel and unusual” punishment when it fined and sometimes jailed hundreds of people sleeping outside.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — which has jurisdiction over nine states, including Nevada — has a reputation as one of the most liberal courts in the country. It also has the dubious distinction of being the appellate court most likely to be reversed by the U.
Of the 653,000 people who experience homelessness in the United States, 41 percent live in the nine westernmost states, according to the most recent federal survey. That includes the five