(February 27, 2024, 2:22 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Punishments for violating a public camping ordinance, including fines and short jail terms, do not violate the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, an Oregon city argues in its petitioner brief filed Feb. 26 in the U.S. Supreme Court; the city is challenging a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling barring enforcement of the ordinance in a ruling in which certification of the class of involuntarily homeless individuals was upheld....