On June 28, 2024, the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson (Grants Pass), ...

fails the test of the Eighth Amendment, as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. We reject that result because the United States Constitution cannot properly be so ...

However, more recent challenges are focusing less on the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and focusing ... later adopted by a fledgling United States. But in 1942, Congress lowered ...

Johnson removed blockages from lower court rulings on anti-camping laws in Western states ... nowhere else to go violated the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment prohibits ...

The ruling overturned a lower court decision that called it cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment to punish ... of homeless people in the United States. More than 4,400 men, women ...

Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) described such experiences as punishment that was “cruel and unusual,” referring to a violation of the eighth amendment of the Constitution.

The court’s landmark decision — which found in June that such bans do not violate the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment ...

A federal magistrate judge, in reviewing a civil rights complaint filed by a former inmate of the Blair County Prison, has recommended that several of his allegations be dismissed but that an Eighth ...

Wisconsin voters have decided against two constitutional amendments passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that ...

Republican state lawmakers are hoping to energize their base with a pair of constitutional amendments on the ballot that will ...