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The Supreme Court may have struck down a lower court ruling protecting the civil rights of the homeless in California, but that doesn't mean the ACLU's lawsuit against the city of San Francisco won't go forward, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
The suit was brought by the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, and the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP on behalf of San Francisco's Coalition on Homelessness.
According to the ACLU's website, the case was prompted as a result of the city's "efforts to criminalize homelessness through an array of brutal policing practices that violate the constitutional rights of unhoused San Franciscans."
The lawsuit argues that the city is in violation of its own policies regarding the treatment of its homeless residents.
John Do, a senior attorney for the ACLU's Racial and Economic Justice Program, tells 48 Hills that the case was built off of Martin v.
Boise and Grants Pass, but the other 12 claims against San Francisco and Mayor London Breed remain.
The lawsuit argues that the city has failed to invest in affordable housing and shelter, forcing the unhoused to use tents and vehicles as shelter.
It also states that between Jan.
1 and June, 2021,
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