American Express Centurion v. Pototschnig

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• finding that “during the first three months 16 of 2015, the Boise Police Department issued over 175 such citations”
• explaining that Martin’s novel holding was inconsistent with the “text, tradition, and original public meaning[] [of] the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment”
• holding enforcement 2 of Boise’s anti-public camping ordinance against homeless people was unconstitutional 3 punishment for involuntary act of sheltering against elements in absence of available homeless 4 shelter space
• holding only that a city 13 cannot prosecute “homeless individuals for ‘involuntarily sitting, lying, and sleeping in public[]’” 14 when there are more homeless individuals than there are available beds in a public shelter
• holding “that ‘so long as there is a 14 greater number of homeless individuals in [a jurisdiction] than the number of available 15 beds [in shelters],’ the jurisdiction cannot prosecute homeless individuals for 16 ‘involuntarily sitting, lying, and sleeping in public.’”
• “hold[ing] that an ordinance 1 individuals for sleeping outdoors, on public property, when no alternative shelter is available to 2 them”

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