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Grants Pass · Grants PassAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La Corte Suprema debatió el lunes durante más de dos horas y media la cuestión de si multar a las personas sin hogar es un castigo “cruel e inusual” que viola la Octava Enmienda. Varios de los jueces parecían preocupados por la perspectiva de criminalizar a las personas sin hogar, pero también les preocupaba limitar la capacidad de una ciudad para regular la salud pública o los riesgos de incendio en los campamentos de…See the Story
La Corte Suprema debatió si es un castigo "cruel e inusual" que las ciudades multen a las personas sin hogar
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Grants Pass · Grants Pass(RNS) — Overwhelmingly, faith groups who filed for Johnson v. Grants Pass did so against criminalizing homelessness. The post Do homeless people have constitutional rights? appeared first on Religion News Service.See the Story
Do homeless people have constitutional rights?
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Grants Pass · Grants PassU.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that an Oregon town wanted unhoused people to "kill themselves" after the municipality moved to punish people for sleeping outside.During oral arguments on Monday, Sotomayor told Theane Evangelis, a lawyer for Grants Pass, that the city's "intent is to remove every homeless person and give them no public space to sit down with a blanket or lay down with a blanket and fall asleep.""So we think …See the Story
Justice Sotomayor: Should unhoused people 'kill themselves' instead of sleeping outside?
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Homeless · Grants PassProgressive policies allowing the homeless to die on Seattle streets might come to an end thanks to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). City leaders will simply need to find a political backbone. SCOTUS will hear The City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson on Monday, April 22. The case stems from a broader argument over whether homeless camping bans constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment when no alternativ…See the Story
Supreme Court homeless case could save Seattle, region
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Grants Pass · Grants PassPORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- On Monday, the US Supreme Court will hear a case from Grants Pass, a city of 40,000 nestled in the mountains of southern Oregon, where rents are rising and there is just one overnight shelter for adults. As a growing number of tents clustered its parks, the city banned camping and set $295 fines for people sleeping there. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals largely blocked the camping ban under its finding that it is u…See the Story
Grants Pass homeless case at SCOTUS ‘not complicated’
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Grants Pass · Grants PassBy Deborah Bloom GRANTS PASS, Oregon (Reuters) – On a sunny afternoon in a grassy park by the river, Amber Rockwell loaded a black, steel cart with a tent, suitcases, bags, camping stove and a plastic tin of licorice and tightened it all down with ratchet straps as she prepared to move to the next park over. Every week, she and the hundreds of other people living outdoors in Grants Pass, Oregon, must pack up and change locations to avoid bei…See the Story
How a small Oregon town sparked a nationwide debate on homelessness
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