Government
Oct. 6, 2023
San Francisco seeks reversal of homeless cases with ‘shadow docket’
San Francisco’s argument invites the Supreme Court to use the very mechanism that liberal legal observers have criticized the conservative-dominated Supreme Court for using to strike down COVID-19 restrictions and to allow a Texas law that effectively banned abortion in that state to remain in effect.
The San Francisco city attorney’s office, going a step further than Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California cities, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to summarily reverse two 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decisions banning anti-camping ordinances in cities that do not have adequate shelter space.
San Francisco is fighting a preliminary injunction – which cited those 9th Circuit rulings – that limits its ability to enforce ordinances aimed...
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