Supreme Court rules cities can ban homeless people from sleeping outdoors – Sotomayor dissent summarizes opinion as ‘stay awake or be arrested’
- Written by Clare Pastore, Professor of the Practice of Law, University of Southern California
Housing activists demonstrate outside the Supreme Court on April 22, 2024.Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court has ruled that the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit cities from criminalizing sleeping outdoors.
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