Posted on 06/28/2024 9:54:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In what sounds like one of the weirdest cases in recent memory, the Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 in favor of municipalities in the case of City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson. The case involved whether municipalities could bar homeless people from “camping” in public spaces, addressing the question, “Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitute ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ prohibited by the Eighth Amendment?”
The short summary from SCOTUSblog's Amy Howe in the site's live chat is that "The court holds that the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property does not constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment' barred by the Eighth Amendment."
The case stemmed from the city of Grants Pass fining homeless people who were living in cardboard boxes or sleeping with blankets and pillows in public areas of the city. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a similar law in Boise, Idaho, violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The case against the city drew on the 1962 case of Robinson v. California, which used Eighth Amendment arguments to ban states and localities from making drug addiction a crime on its own without an addict committing other crimes.
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Rabbit Food Cocktail (TM) is the only alcoholic beverage I can sell you unless you buy a ten-year city purchase permit for $250.
Here it is!
I’m Officer Observant, I’ll take that. It has nine years left, that means you only owe the city $25 instead of $250.
Bum-American, technically. Hobos we’re traveling workers, bums were those who never had jobs.
“Unless you own the property, it’s not yours to do as you wish.”
Even if “you own the property, it’s not yours to do as you wish.”
By Florida law, I could not personally get a permit to rebuild my house if it was destroyed by a hurricane.
The laws of men do not guarantee that they will be Constitutional.
Did you rebuild your house?
LOL!
Normal people pay to camp on a site for a specific number of days. And most camp sites have limits to the period of time you can remain there. Homeless people park their asses wherever they want without remuneration to the landowner. Using the term “camping” to describe what the homeless do, is just another bastardization of a word by the left to give themselves the freedom to do whatever they want, without consideration of anyone else around them. There are still vagrancy laws on the books in most cities in this country. The problem is they don’t bother to enforce them, or update them to include homeless people’s taking over property for their own use without paying for that use. And they plop their tents down in areas not specifically zoned for it, while the liberal-run cities ignore it, even if it becomes overwhelming to the people who pay taxes.
I respectfully stand corrected
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