The Boise decision is a 2018 decision reached by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. A lawyer in Boise, Idaho had filed a lawsuit on behalf of six homeless people claiming that it violated their 8th amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment to be arrested or otherwise punished for sleeping on the streets when they had nowhere else to go. The 9th Circuit decision effectively made it illegal for any state that was part of the 9th Circuit’s jurisdiction to do anything about homeless camps which proliferated on the sidewalks.Read More
Progressive elected officials beg conservative Supreme Court for relief on homelessness
