April 22, 2024
U.S. Supreme Court justices probed the limits of what might be considered criminalizing status amid oral arguments Monday over whether an Oregon city's law banning camping on public property violates the Eighth Amendment's bar on cruel and unusual punishment.
April 19, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court will return Monday for the term's final week of oral arguments, during which it will consider several high-stakes disputes, including whether a federal healthcare law can preempt state abortion bans and whether former President Donald Trump is entitled to immunity from criminal charges related to official acts.
April 17, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a case weighing whether an Oregon city's anti-camping laws violate the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Here, Law360 previews the stances carved out by the city and a certified class of homeless residents.
April 05, 2024
A network of more than 200 women's and family shelters told the U.S. Supreme Court that an Oregon city's prohibition on camping in public spaces subjects involuntarily homeless women and children — who are often put in that position due to gender-based violence — to further potential harm.
April 03, 2024
A coalition of San Francisco stakeholders has accused the city and California of overstepping their bounds in an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an Oregon city's prohibition on camping in public spaces, discounting their "alarmist claims" that the ruling rendered jurisdictions powerless.
February 27, 2024
An Oregon city urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Ninth Circuit ruling that its ban on camping in public spaces violated homeless residents' Eighth Amendment rights, arguing that the court's ruling impermissibly immunizes some conduct from all punishment.
January 12, 2024
Civic leaders rejoiced Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to review a Ninth Circuit ruling allowing people to camp on public property in an Oregon city when shelters lack space, while advocates for unhoused people called the move "troubling."
December 20, 2023
Grants Pass, Oregon, wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit decision that allowed camping on public property because the ruling conflicts with other high court judgments and has wreaked havoc on western U.S. cities, the city said in a response brief Wednesday.
December 06, 2023
Opponents of a Grants Pass, Oregon, law banning camping in public places told the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday it should reject the city's appeal of a Ninth Circuit ruling finding the law to be cruel and unusual punishment for effectively criminalizing homelessness.
October 03, 2023
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Ninth Circuit ruling on an Oregon city's homeless enforcement policies, arguing that an appellate panel's erroneous decision "wreaked practical havoc in courts" and on the streets of her city and others in the circuit's jurisdiction.