You Can't Solve Homelessness by Making It a Crime
In an August ruling, Washington's Supreme Court found that a homeless plaintiff's truck qualified as his homestead.
17 January 2022
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In an August ruling, Washington's Supreme Court found that a homeless plaintiff's truck qualified as his homestead.
17 January 2022
A man's car is his castle. So declared the Washington Supreme Court, more or less, when it ruled last August that the city of Seattle could not impound a homeless man's truck and require him to pay nearly $550 in towing and storage costs. Nor could the city sell the man's truck, his sole source of shelter, at auction to pay off his debts. The justices held that Seattle's practice violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of excessive fines and fees. It was one of the first times a state high court had applied the Excessive Fines Clause since the U.S. ...
You Can't Solve Homelessness by Making It a Crime
A man's car is his castle. So declared the Washington Supreme Court, more or less, when it ruled last August...
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