U.S. Supreme Court,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Jan. 18, 2024
San Francisco seeks stay of camp removal challenges
Attorneys at the ACLU of Northern California, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, and Latham & Watkins LLP filed a lawsuit claiming San Francisco’s statutes prohibiting sitting, lying, or sleeping on sidewalks during certain hours were unconstitutional.
The San Francisco city attorney’s office told a federal judge on Wednesday that it would seek a stay on a challenge to ordinances restricting homeless camps until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a related case later this year.
“We want to be sure that we’re preserving public resources,” Deputy City Attorney John H. George told U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu in Oakland.
“A stay of this case would be a fairly l...