B SACRAMENTO, CA - Disability Rights California said this week it condemns the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Grant Pass v Johnson case that allows local governments to ban sleepi

Lawyers representing homeless residents in the city argued that amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, which is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. But on Friday, the court’s majority disagreed. In the court’s 6-3 decision, Justice Neil Gorsuch said the city’s enforcement of its public camping laws does not violate the Eighth Amendment.

WASHINGTON – Advocates for homeless people in Arizona fear the Supreme Court has raised the risk of violence at the hands of police by upholding ordinances that criminalize sleeping in public places.

Re “Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside” (June 28): If San Diego officials go forward with the staggeringly expensive Kettner homeless shelter after the

Democratic senators in Pennsylvania are drafting a bill to prevent the criminalization of homelessness in the state after the Supreme Court recently ruled that cities can enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside in public places.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s watershed decision on homelessness Friday will make it easier for elected officials and law enforcement authorities nationwide to fine and arrest people who live on streets and sidewalks,