Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Sleeping Outdoors in Homelessness Case
The case is likely to have broad ramifications for how cities across the country respond to homelessness.
By Abbie VanSickle
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I came to The Times from The Marshall Project, where I was the lead reporter on a yearlong investigation into the injuries caused by police dog bites that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting. I was a finalist in 2019 and 2021 for Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. I’ve also worked as a journalist for the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley, the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Tampa Bay Times. From 2011 to 2012, I was a Henry Luce Scholar in Cambodia.
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