With homelessness on the rise, the Supreme Court weighs bans on sleeping outdoors
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If you are homeless and have nowhere to go — neither a temporary shelter bed nor a permanent home — can you be fined or, worse, jailed for sleeping on a sidewalk? Or is that cruel and unusual punishment? That’s the question that the Supreme Court wrestled with Monday when it heard oral arguments in the case of Grants Pass vs. Johnson regarding the Oregon city's ordinance allowing police to fine or jail homeless people for sleeping outside. A federal district court ruled that the law violated the...
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Supreme Court case could impact how cities handle homelessness
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could impact how cities across the nation handle homelessness on Monday. The case comes after a city in Oregon is fining people for sleeping or camping in public places. The city of Grants Pass, Oregon issued over 500 tickets for []