Amici To High Court: Homelessness Shouldn’t Be Punished With No Camping Law

(April 4, 2024, 10:38 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ordinances barring public camping “unlawfully target and punish socially stigmatized people based on their status” and constitute “cruel and unusual publishment” in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and other groups argue in an amicus curiae brief filed April 3 in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of arguments by the class representatives for homeless individuals who sued over such an ordinance passed by a city in Oregon....

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