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Supreme Court divided over homeless ban and rights of the unhoused: The decision in an Oregon homelessness case, to be released in June, could be the most ...
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Supreme Court divided over homeless ban and rights of the unhoused
Quick Glance: Supreme Court Debates Homeless Ban and Rights of the Unhoused
  • Justices expressed concerns over penalizing homeless individuals for sleeping outside without alternatives.

  • Review of Oregon anti-camping laws could lead to significant rulings on the rights of the unhoused.

  • Liberal justices criticized Grants Pass laws for criminalizing basic human needs.

  • Conservative justices emphasized policymakers, not judges, should set rules for dealing with homelessness.
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Fetterman, Warren lead Democrats in urging DEA to ‘swiftly’ take marijuana off Schedule I
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Fetterman, Warren lead Democrats in urging DEA to ‘swiftly’ take marijuana ...
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Homelessness is destroying US cities. Supreme Court must let them get it under control.
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Homelessness is destroying US cities. Supreme Court must let them get it ...
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Fossil fuels are banned from federal buildings in a new rule: The Energy Department finalized rules that will ban fossil fuels in new and remodeled federal ...
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Fossil fuels are banned from federal buildings in a new rule
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Furry visitor gave an Oregon city an ‘unexpected surprise.’ See it wander the streets
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Furry visitor gave an Oregon city an ‘unexpected surprise ...
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The Streets: America’s Hidden Retirement Home: America is abandoning too many of its older adults to homelessness.
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The Streets: America’s Hidden Retirement Home
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Tom Hanks’ First Movie Is a Forgotten Precursor to Scream: It might come as a surprise that the world's father figure started his career in the horror genre ...
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Tom Hanks’ First Movie Is a Forgotten Precursor to Scream
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National Park Service approves new Crater Lake operator, ending Aramark’s tenure: Hospitality company ExplorUS will take over the contract, effective immediately ...
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National Park Service approves new Crater Lake operator, ending Aramark’s ...
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What’s at stake in the upcoming Supreme Court case on laws limiting homelessness: The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday on whether laws limiting ...
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What’s at stake in the upcoming Supreme Court case on laws limiting ...
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COVID vaccines not linked to cardiac death in young people: CDC study: A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study has found that mRNA vaccines for ...
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COVID vaccines not linked to cardiac death in young people: CDC study
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WA ranks high for voter turnout, but Oregon left us in the dust: New data on the 2022 midterm elections shows Washington ranked 10th for voter turnout with a 59 ...
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WA ranks high for voter turnout, but Oregon left us in the dust
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Activists at Supreme Court protest move to penalize homelessness: Demonstrators — some of whom had been homeless themselves — came from New York City ...
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Activists at Supreme Court protest move to penalize homelessness
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How Apple Could Help Small Businesses--and the Environment--by Making its Devices Easier to Repair
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How Apple Could Help Small Businesses--and the Environment--by Making its ...
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Supreme Court hears case on whether cities can criminalize homelessness, disband camps
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Supreme Court hears case on whether cities can criminalize homelessness ...
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Cascades Pika Watch: Volunteers needs to head into Columbia River Gorge to track cute critters
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Cascades Pika Watch: Volunteers needs to head into Columbia River Gorge to ...
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World Cup 2026: Concerns over fans’ U.S. visa wait times – ‘Your window might already be closed’
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World Cup 2026: Concerns over fans’ U.S. visa wait times – ‘Your window ...
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Russia's military is allergic to the deep reforms it needs : Whatever the outcome of the Ukraine war, one thing seems certain: the Russian military is in need of ...
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Russia's military is allergic to the deep reforms it needs
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U.S. Supreme Court weighs constitutionality of fining homeless people who sleep outside
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U.S. Supreme Court weighs constitutionality of fining homeless people who ...
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Criminalizing the Unhoused Is Inherently Cruel: Fining, arresting, and jailing people for a lack of housing is never the solution—and compounds existing housing ...
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Criminalizing the Unhoused Is Inherently Cruel
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The Supreme Court case that could turn homelessness into a crime: Grants Pass v. Johnson
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The Supreme Court case that could turn homelessness into a crime: Grants ...
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Supreme court appears to side with Starbucks in fight over fired employees: Coffee chain brings challenge after being told to rehire seven workers at Tennessee ...
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Supreme court appears to side with Starbucks in fight over fired employees
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Supreme Court skeptical of laws against unhoused people camping. California officials await decision
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Supreme Court skeptical of laws against unhoused people camping ...
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What’s at stake for homeless people this week at the Supreme Court: This week, the justices will hear the biggest case on homelessness in decades.
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What’s at stake for homeless people this week at the Supreme Court
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This specialty food store’s new Portland home? A century-old former green grocer: The building, which dates to 1909, was originally home to Jos. T ...
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This specialty food store’s new Portland home? A century-old former green ...
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Opinion: Criminalizing homelessness is unconscionable. But unconstitutional?: Supreme Court justices dive into the question of when and if rousting homeless ...
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Opinion: Criminalizing homelessness is unconscionable. But ...
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‘I’m dying, you’re not’: Those terminally ill ask more states to legalize physician-assisted death
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‘I’m dying, you’re not’: Those terminally ill ask more states to legalize ...
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Oregon Sees Massive Surge in People Trying to Buy Guns: According to data from the NICS, Oregon saw a 43 percent change in firearm background checks from ...
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Oregon Sees Massive Surge in People Trying to Buy Guns
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Protesters stop traffic on I-5 south in Eugene; 52 arrests made: The demonstration stopped traffic on the interstate for 45 minutes.
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Protesters stop traffic on I-5 south in Eugene; 52 arrests made
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Oregon’s 2024 minimum wage increase takes effect in July: Oregon's minimum wage has been tiered by location since 2017, and pegged to inflation since 2023.
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Oregon’s 2024 minimum wage increase takes effect in July
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Relief for Oregon unemployment claim delays could take ‘several months’ to kick in
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Relief for Oregon unemployment claim delays could take ‘several months’ to ...
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Greenhouse gases surged to record levels last year: The last time planet-warming greenhouse gases were this abundant in the atmosphere, seas were 75 feet higher ...
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Greenhouse gases surged to record levels last year
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Top 10 U.S. cities for eco-conscious living—they're almost all on the West Coast: Of the top 10 greenest cities in America, eight are on the West Coast.
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Top 10 U.S. cities for eco-conscious living—they're almost all on the West ...
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How Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson Have Kept Their Marriage Strong for 35 Years: The Oscar winning actor revealed his secret to a happy union with his wife.
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How Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson Have Kept Their Marriage Strong for 35 Years
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The Oregon town home to a marijuana-eating deer and a talking crow: Part 9: The most famous creature (besides Cosmo) to come from Williams, Oregon ...
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The Oregon town home to a marijuana-eating deer and a talking crow: Part ...
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How Supreme Court’s Grants Pass Homeless Case May Limit Prisoner Rights: In Grants Pass v. Johnson, a town in Oregon asks the court to reconsider what ...
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How Supreme Court’s Grants Pass Homeless Case May Limit Prisoner Rights
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Tuesday is the deadline to register to vote, change your party affiliation for the May 21 primary
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Tuesday is the deadline to register to vote, change your party affiliation ...
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Find a hidden wildflower paradise at Camassia Natural Area in West Linn: The small nature preserve is a rainbow of color in the spring.
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Find a hidden wildflower paradise at Camassia Natural Area in West Linn
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Autopia doesn't belong in Tomorrowland until it's electrified: Fossil-fueled cars were cutting edge in the 19th century. They don't belong in a place called ...
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Autopia doesn't belong in Tomorrowland until it's electrified
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Person comes forward to claim $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot in Oregon: Oregon officials say a person with a ticket matching all six Powerball numbers in ...
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Person comes forward to claim $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot in Oregon
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The planet’s plastic problem: why we need a global plastics treaty: A global plastics treaty is urgently required to limit plastic's contribution to climate ...
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The planet’s plastic problem: why we need a global plastics treaty
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Drones Could Unite Ranchers and Conservationists: Flying robots could offer a nonlethal way to keep wolves away from cattle.
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Drones Could Unite Ranchers and Conservationists
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No. 20 Oregon softball strikes early to even series with No. 25 Arizona: Ariel Carlson went 3 for 4 with an RBI and Elise Sokolsky and Morgan Scott stranded 11 ...
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No. 20 Oregon softball strikes early to even series with No. 25 Arizona
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We need housing, not handcuffs | Opinion: Florida is not alone in passing laws such as a ban on public sleeping to combat homelessness ...
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We need housing, not handcuffs | Opinion
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Cities need camping bans as part of balanced policies on homelessness: Grants Pass v. Johnson, a U.S. Supreme Court case out of Oregon, could hamstring Dallas’ ...
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Cities need camping bans as part of balanced policies on homelessness
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They’re fighting polluters destroying historically Black towns – starting with their own
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They’re fighting polluters destroying historically Black towns – starting ...
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Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman & Bruce Willis Deeply Regret Making This Movie: It's rare that one movie sparks so much negative feedback from its stars ...
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Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman & Bruce Willis Deeply Regret Making This Movie
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Will the Supreme Court Uphold the 14th Amendment and Block an Oregon Law Criminalizing Homelessness?
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Will the Supreme Court Uphold the 14th Amendment and Block an Oregon Law ...
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Portland gas tax for road repair back on ballot: The gas tax is a key source of funding for road maintenance and repairs.
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Portland gas tax for road repair back on ballot
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The Supreme Court Weighs Whether Cities Can Criminalize Homelessness: If the high court rules in favor of the city of Oregon, there would be far-reaching ...
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The Supreme Court Weighs Whether Cities Can Criminalize Homelessness
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Democratic group to spend $9.5M on Portland area ad blitz for seats in Congress; only LA and NYC targeted for
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Democratic group to spend $9.5M on Portland area ad blitz for seats in ...