Supreme Court Seems Skeptical of Criminalizing Homelessness as a Solution to Encampments
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in a…
Guest Submission: SCOTUS to Determine Whether Cities Can Punish People for Sleeping in Public When They Have Nowhere Else to Go
Q&A with Scout Katovich, staff attorney at the Trone Center for Justice and Equality, on the stakes…
ACLU Brief Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Eighth Amendment Protections in Grants Pass v. Johnson
Brief Argues that the Constitutional Prohibition on ‘Cruel and Unusual Punishments’ Prevents Cities from Arresting or Fining…
Brief in Grants Pass Case Charges California Politicians Have Stoked Misinformation Rather Than Addressed Affordable Housing Needs
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of…
San Francisco Moves to Stay Homeless Suit in Wake of Grants Pass Case
Special to the Vanguard San Francisco, CA – Plaintiffs in Coalition on Homelessness v. City of San…
Sunday Commentary: Criminalizing the Homeless
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor In the last decade in California homelessness has gone from a…
Despite US Supreme Court Review of Grants Pass Case, San Francisco Homelessness Case Should Proceed
Special to the Vanguard San Francisco, CA – San Francisco’s City Attorney filed a motion for a…
COMMENTARY: Chemerinsky – ‘There Is Every Reason to Fear that the Conservative Justices Will Allow Governments to Criminalize Sleeping in Public Spaces even if People Have Nowhere Else to Go’
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Last week, the US Supreme Court announced that they would be…
Supreme Court Will Take Up ‘Grants Pass’ Homeless Case and Determine Whether Local Governments Can Perform Homeless Sweeps
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will review…
