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Recent Cases

  • McDeid v. Johnston (Minn. 2023)

  • Doe v. Department of Justice (C.D. Cal. 2023)

  • In re T.O. (Cal. Ct. App. 2022)

  • People v. Kastman (Ill. 2022)

  • State v. McMahon (La. Ct. App. 2022)

  • Commonwealth v. Roderick (Mass. 2022)

  • Lake Naomi Club, Inc. v. Rosado (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2022)

  • State v. Larson (Minn. 2022)

  • McGuire v. Marshall (11th Cir. 2022)

  • Baughman v. Commonwealth of Virginia (Va. 2022)

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Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center

875 Summit Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55105

Professor Eric Janus, Director

eric.janus @mitchellhamline.edu

Madeline Ranum, Policy Fellow

651-695-7638

madeline.ranum @mitchellhamline.edu

Doe as Next Friend of Doe #6 v. Swearingen (11th Cir. 2022)

Posted: November 17, 2022
Eleventh Circuit opinion holding that the continuing violation doctrine applies to required registrants' claims based on reputational injury and regular reporting requirements in challenge to constitutionality of sex offense registration law.

Doe as Next Friend of Doe #6 v. Swearingen (11th Cir. 2022)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 11th Cir., Continuing Violation, SORN, Statute of Limitations

McGuire v. Marshall (11th Cir. 2022)

Posted: November 17, 2022
Eleventh Circuit per curiam opinion rejecting plaintiff-appellant's Ex Post Facto challenge and concluding that the provisions of Alabama's sex offense registration law at issue, including residency and employment restrictions, homeless-reporting requirements, travel notification requirements, and direct community notification requirements, were not punitive in effect. 

McGuire v. Marshall (11th Cir. 2022)

Category: Residency Cases, SORN Cases Tag: 11th Cir., Alabama, Ex Post Facto, Homelessness, Travel Restrictions

McClendon v. Long (11th Cir. 2022)

Posted: February 4, 2022
Eleventh Circuit opinion concluding that signs placed by a Georgia Sheriff's Office in the yard of individuals required to register as "sex offenders" warning against trick-or-treating are compelled government speech, and that their placement violates a homeowner's First Amendment rights. 

McClendon v. Long (11th Cir. 2022)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 11th Cir., Compelled Speech, First Amendment

United States v. Bobal (11th Cir. 2020)

Posted: December 1, 2020
11th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion holding that lifetime computer restrictions for an individual on supervised release did not violate the First Amendment.

United States v. Bobal (11th Cir. 2020)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 11th Cir., 1st Amendment, Internet Restrictions, Supervised Release

Bilal v. Geo Care (11th Cir. 2020)

Posted: November 10, 2020
11th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion reversing in part a lower court dismissal of a civil detainee who brought a lawsuit alleging violation of his Due Process rights in connection with his transport to a court hearing and detention in a jail.

Bilal v. Geo Care (11th Cir. 2020)

Category: Civil Commitment Cases Tag: 11th Cir., Conditions of Confinement, Due Process, Florida

Reed v. Long (M.D. Ga. 2020)

Posted: October 28, 2020
Federal trial court opinion granting a motion for summary judgment, finding that the placement of Halloween signs on plaintiffs' property did not violate various constitutional rights.

Reed v. Long (M.D. Ga. 2020)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 11th Cir., 1st Amendment, Compelled Speech, Georgia, Halloween, Sign Posting

McGroarty v. Swearingen (11th Cir. 2020)

Posted: October 23, 2020
11th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion holding that a lawsuit challenging Florida's practice of publicly displaying the registration information of a plaintiff who no longer lived in the state was time bared.

McGroarty v. Swearingen (11th Cir. 2020)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 11th Cir., Continuing Violation, Extraterritorial Registration, Florida, Statute of Limitations

Does v. Miami-Dade County (11th Cir. 2020)

Posted: September 9, 2020
11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the denial of the lower court to allow an as-applied Ex Post Facto claim in a lawsuit over Miami-Dade's housing banishment laws.

Does v. Miami-Dade County (11th Cir. 2020)

Category: Residency Cases Tag: 11th Cir., Ex Post Facto, Florida

United States v. Belcher (11th Cir. 2020)

Posted: February 15, 2020
11th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion affirming the district court's imposition of various computer-related restrictions of supervised release on an individual who was not on supervision for a sex offense, but had a past conviction for a sex offense.

United States v. Belcher (11th Cir. 2020)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 11th Cir., Conditions of Release, Supervised Release

Jackson v. United States (11th Cir. 2019)

Posted: November 20, 2019
11th Circuit Court of Appeals finding no ineffective assistance of counsel where, despite advice that plea agreement would not require registration as a sex offender, counsel could not have anticipated subsequent changes in the law.

Jackson v. United States (11th Cir. 2019)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 11th Cir., AWA, Georgia, Ineffective Assistance

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