The City of San Francisco escaped large portions of a lawsuit from homeless residents and the nonprofit Coalition on Homelessness alleging the city violates the rights of homeless people by forcing them to leave public spaces when there is no available shelter and seizing their belongings.
Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu on Wednesday dismissed all portions of the suit based on violations of the Eighth Amendment, citing the US Supreme Court’s ruling this summer in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson that the enforcement of public camping laws isn’t an cruel or unusual punishment.
By Ryu, writing for the US ...
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