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The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a 2022 law that banned people from sleeping on state-owned land and worried advocates that it would criminalize people experiencing homelessness. The state’s high court, in a unanimous decision, ruled that the law violated the state constitutional requirement that bills relate to a single subject, overturning a lower court’s ruling that upheld the law. The provision banning sleeping on state land was included in a sweeping bill that included a range of different policies, including county coroners, building codes and tax exemptions on World Cup…

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