City of Grants Pass v. Johnson

City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 22, 2024; Decided June 28, 2024
Full case name	City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated
Docket no.	23-175
Citations	603 U.S. 520 (more)
Argument	Oral argument
Decision	Opinion
Case history
Prior	Motion for class certification granted, 1:18-cv-01823-CL (D. Or. Aug. 7, 2019); Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgement granted in part and denied in part, 1:18-cv-01823-CL (D. Or. Jul. 22, 2020); Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded, 50 F.4th 787 (9th Cir. 2022); Petition for rehearing en banc denied, 72 F.4th 868 (9th Cir. 2023);
Questions presented
	Does a local government's enforcement of a public camping ban against involuntarily homeless people violate the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment?
Holding
	The enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.
Court membership
	Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito; Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan; Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh; Amy Coney Barrett · Ketanji Brown Jackson
Case opinions
Majority	Gorsuch, joined by Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, Barrett
Concurrence	Thomas
Dissent	Sotomayor, joined by Kagan, Jackson
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend VIII

City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, 603 U.S. 520 (2024), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that local government ordinances with civil and criminal penalties for camping on public land do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment of homeless people.^[1]

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City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 22, 2024 Decided June 28, 2024
Full case name	City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated
Docket no.	23-175
Citations	603 U.S. 520 (more)
Argument	Oral argument
Decision	Opinion
Case history
Prior	Motion for class certification granted, 1:18-cv-01823-CL (D. Or. Aug. 7, 2019) Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgement granted in part and denied in part, 1:18-cv-01823-CL (D. Or. Jul. 22, 2020) Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded, 50 F.4th 787 (9th Cir. 2022) Petition for rehearing en banc denied, 72 F.4th 868 (9th Cir. 2023)
Questions presented
Does a local government's enforcement of a public camping ban against involuntarily homeless people violate the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment?
Holding
The enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh Amy Coney Barrett · Ketanji Brown Jackson
Case opinions
Majority	Gorsuch, joined by Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, Barrett
Concurrence	Thomas
Dissent	Sotomayor, joined by Kagan, Jackson
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend VIII