U.S. Supreme Court
Mar. 28, 2024
Challenge to homeless ruling relies on 1962 addiction case
Many municipalities have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a 9th Circuit rulilng they say hamstrings their ability to police anti-camping ordinances.
In a brief filed Wednesday in advance on next month’s U.S. Supreme Court showdown over an Oregon city’s anti-camping ordinance, attorneys for homeless plaintiffs relied heavily on a 1962 precedent that overturned a law criminalizing drug addiction on the grounds it violated the Eighth Amendment.
The respondents’ brief sets up an April 22 oral argument between the homeless plaintiffs and the city of Grants Pass, Oregon that will test the bo...
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