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It’s been one year since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Grants Pass’s ban against homeless people camping in public. The ...
It’s been one year since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Grants Pass’ ban against homeless people camping in public. But in ...
Foster then called a different cab company, Grants Pass Taxi. A driver who asked to be identified only by his first name, Scott, picked up a clean-shaven man who wore a hoodie over his head and ...
Summer horse racing is back at the Grants Pass Downs, starting Saturday and Sunday. Post time is 1 p.m. Admission is $5 per ...
Grants Pass Mayor Sara Bristol said she is glad the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the city. ... where about 600 unhoused people live in tents, under tarps and sleep on tables and benches. ...
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — For more than five years, Helen Cruz lived on the streets of Grants Pass. A small, rural town of roughly 40,000 people, the city has now found itself at the center of a ...
The Grants Pass City Council has a meeting scheduled for July 10 to discuss the ruling. ... “People have similar behaviors if they live in homes, but they have walls around them.
Five homeless people with disabilities who live in Grants Pass are named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. They include people who use wheelchairs and canes, ...
The Supreme Court heard oral argument in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson and Smith v. Spizzirri, ... no, people don’t have a right to sleep or live in public spaces.
Because the Grants Pass ordinance specifically targets those who sleep in public, Gorsuch concluded, it punishes “conduct” rather than “status,” which is acceptable under the Eighth Amendment.