U.S.: Supreme Court refuses to consider cities' efforts to prosecute the homeless for sleeping outside Monday, December 16, 2019
USA Today
The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether state and local governments can make it a crime for homeless people to sleep outside.
The justices won't hear a case from Boise, Idaho, that had nationwide ramifications for cities with large numbers of homeless people living on the streets.
The question was whether the homeless can be prosecuted using laws designed to regulate public camping and sleeping – or whether that constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.
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