Officials And Community Leaders Anxiously Await SCOTUS Homelessness Ruling

By Jonah Kaplan, CBS Minnesota

June 14, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — Local officials and community support organizations are anxiously awaiting a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that could drastically limit how governments manage homeless encampments.

At stake for SCOTUS is the constitutionality of local laws that ban public camping, and whether arresting people for sleeping in public places violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

The case is the most significant involving homelessness to come before the nation's highest court in decades.

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