Want access to unlimited case records and advanced research tools? Create your free CasePortal account now. No credit card required to register.
Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Wright denies the city, county and park board's motions for judgment on the pleadings in the recently homeless individuals and nonprofit's suit alleging that sweeps of encampments in Minneapolis parks violate their civil rights and unlawfully convert their property. While all of the individual plaintiffs are now housed, the transitory nature of homelessness and housing instability are sufficient to confer standing to pursue injunctive relief. They have also adequately alleged that the governments had unconstitutional customs of providing insufficient notice before shutting down encampments and seizing or destroying property found in them, and that they coordinated encampment closures with each other. The nonprofit has also adequately pleaded that the diversion of funds to pay for hotel rooms for displaced encampment residents constituted an injury traceable to the governments' conduct.