But the Supreme Court interprets laws on a national scale, and either way, Grants Pass will still have to follow Oregon’s state law that was passed in 2021 about “objectively reasonable ...

Homeless residents of Grants Pass, Oregon, faced fines of $250 and jail time for breaking the city’s strict anti-camping laws until a federal appeals court said the ordinances violate the ...

The Supreme Court doesn’t seem eager to get involved with homelessness policy. Grants Pass v. Johnson is probably going to end badly for homeless people, but it’s not yet clear how broad the ...

UPDATE: On Friday, June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court sided with the city of Grants Pass, effectively paving the way for other municipalities to criminalize public camping and sleeping even when there’s ...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Grants Pass v. Johnson, the Southern Oregon case that could have widespread implications for how cities can regulate homelessness.

With Grants Pass, the Supreme Court appears set to allow cities, counties, and states to criminalize homelessness. On a sunny, cold February day, I drove four hours from Portland, Oregon, to ...

The attorneys representing Grants Pass in its upcoming Supreme Court case have filed an opening brief ahead of the ruling that could have a major impact on how cities address homelessness. The ...

But the case made it to the Supreme Court, where Sotomayor didn’t mince words Monday when she said Grants Pass is “not about fires. It’s not about tents,” attacking the perception that the ...

Supreme Court should treat homeless people with dignity. Rule against Grants Pass. By prohibiting sleeping with so much as a blanket in any public space, Grants Pass, Oregon, effectively makes it ...

The court’s eventual decision may very well reverberate outside of Grants Pass to affect the more than 650,000 people who are homeless at any given time in the United States.

The Supreme Court issued a ruling on Friday essentially criminalizing homelessness by ruling in favor of the city of Grants Pass, Oregon. In a 6-3 decision that followed the usual ideological ...

This month, the Supreme Court will rule on Grants Pass v. Johnson, deciding if the government can fine, ticket, or jail a person with no other options for sleeping on public property.