U.S. To High Court: Class Certification Should Be Reconsidered In Encampment Case

(March 5, 2024, 1:08 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a decision barring enforcement of an Oregon city’s public camping ordinance correctly held that the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “effectively criminalizing the status of homelessness” in such a manner but erred when it affirmed “broad injunctive relief without requiring particularized showings,” the United States argues in a March 4 amicus curiae brief in support of neither side in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court....

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