The big question the Supreme Court decided was whether Grants Pass has the right to enforce its public camping bans, using tickets and fines, when there’s nowhere else for homeless people to sleep.

In April, U.S. Supreme Court justices heard arguments in one of the most widely watched cases out of Oregon in recent memory. The question at the heart of Grants Pass v. Johnson was whether cities ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Grants Pass, Oregon, a small city with a large homeless population. The justices said the town can go ahead with its ban on sleeping in public with ...

In a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court just held that people experiencing homelessness could be subject to criminal and civil penalties for sleeping in public spaces. In City of Grants Pass v.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday reversed lower court rulings, finding that public camping restrictions issued by southern Oregon’s Grants Pass do not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment.” ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that the city of Grants Pass did not violate the Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when, according to lower courts, it willfully ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Editor's note: The video above aired before the Supreme Court released its ruling in Johnson v. Grants Pass. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling Friday morning ...

Grants Pass, a city of about 39,000, along with a large number of cities and states, asked the Supreme Court to hear the case, arguing that a 2018 lower court ruling, Martin v. Boise, prevented ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in her dissent from the Supreme Court’s majority opinion in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson On Friday, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority ruled that states ...

The Supreme Court has issued its long-awaited ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson, the most significant legal challenge to the rights of homeless people in decades. In a 6-3 decision written by ...

The Supreme Court reversed that decision ... there were an estimated 256,000 unsheltered people in the U.S. In Grants Pass, a city of roughly 40,000 located in southern Oregon, there are an ...

Yesterday, Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on the phone for over an hour in a bid to jumpstart stalled trade ...