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More recently Martin v. Boise https://nlihc.org/resource/supreme-court-upholds-ruling-homeless-people-cannot-be-criminally-punished-sleeping https://nlihc.org/

• anfilt 6y ago
  I was thinking of an older case, but that just even expands upon the case I was thinking about. Let me try and find it.
• anfilt 6y ago
  So it looks the first round of supreme court actions along this regard I was thinking of started with: Lanzetta v. New Jersey, 306 U.S. 451 (1939) Thrown out for being too vagure However, later cases like: Robinson v. California Powell v. Texas Threw out that laws that criminalize a status of someone, so a lot laws regarding status in lower courts where ruled unconstutional. However, yea things like sleeping have been in a legal limbo for quite some time. Since it is an action, but people need sleep to live. So seems like that case settles that question since criminalizing a necessity for life is kinda ridiculous.