BOULDER — A Colorado court dismissed a complaint filed by homeless Boulder residents’ challenge to the city’s blanket ban and tent ban. The court originally stayed the trial pending the Supreme Court’s judgment in Grants Pass v. Johnson, which devastated the homeless group’s Eighth Amendment claim. Now it sides with the city, find the ordinances do not violate the Colorado constitution that echoes the Eighth Amendment, finding its prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment cannot be interpreted more broadly than the Bill of Rights’ ban can.
Read the ruling here.
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