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Supreme Court Allows City’s Ban on Public Camping Targeting Homeless Encampments

Activists had claimed the local law unfairly punished people whose poverty forced them to camp in public.
Supreme Court Allows City’s Ban on Public Camping Targeting Homeless Encampments
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, on May 29, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
6/28/2024|Updated: 7/1/2024
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The Supreme Court on June 28 upheld on a 6–3 vote a local ordinance banning public camping, which activists claimed unconstitutionally punished homeless people for being homeless.

The majority opinion in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch.
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