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Grants Pass, Oregon, sought to impose anti-camping, anti-sleeping, and parking exclusion ordinances to dissuade homeless individuals from residing on its public land.. The Oregon Law Center, which supports low-income Oregonians, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Debra Blake (1959–2021) in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in October 2018. [4]
About a decade after losing her job and becoming homeless in the small city of Grants Pass, Ore., Debra Blake joined two other homeless residents in suing the city over a set of local ordinances ...
“The Supreme Court’s decision in city of Grants Pass v. Johnson upheld ordinances against public camping but emphasized the need for reasonable regulations,” Jazmyn Clark, an ACLU of ...
Grants Pass is a city in and the county seat of Josephine County, Oregon, ... On June 28, 2024, in a 6–3 decision, the Court upheld the city's ordinance. [44]
Grants Pass is fighting a ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which said town laws prohibiting camping on sidewalks, streets, parks or other public places when ...
Martin v. Boise (full case name Robert Martin, Lawrence Lee Smith, Robert Anderson, Janet F. Bell, Pamela S. Hawkes, and Basil E. Humphrey v.City of Boise) was a 2018 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit regarding anti-camping ordinances targeting homeless people, effectively overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2024.
The small mountain city of Grants Pass, Oregon, which last year brought the legal fight over public sleeping bans to the Supreme Court, has strengthened its homeless resources over the past seven ...
In these states, a city or county must obtain permission from the state legislature if it wishes to pass a law or ordinance not specifically permitted under existing state legislation. Most states have a mix; for example, allowing home rule for municipalities with a minimum number of residents.