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)
Posted: December 1, 2020
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.
State v. Hill (La. 2020)
Posted: October 24, 2020
Louisiana Supreme Court opinion declaring unconstitutional under the 1st Amendment a provision of Louisiana state law that required the driver's licenses of those with past sex offense convictions to bear a mark identifying them as "sex offenders."
Doe v. Rausch (E.D. Tenn. 2020)
Posted: May 16, 2020
Federal trial court in the Eastern District of Tennessee finding that Tennessee's SORA could not be applied retroactively without implicating the Ex Post Facto clause.
John Doe et al. v. Richard Snyder (E.D. Mich. 2020)
Posted: February 14, 2020
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granting permanent injunction, prohibiting in total the enforcement of any of Michigan's sex offense registration scheme to anyone who had committed their offenses prior to 2011, as well as prohibiting the enforcement of numerous provisions to any persons required to register.
State v. Jackson (Wis. Ct. App. 2019)
Posted: December 27, 2019
Wisconsin Court of Appeals opinion finding that state statute that required disclosure of internet identifiers was not facially unconstitutional under the First Amendment.
Fazili v. Commonwealth (Va. Ct. App. 2019)
Posted: December 9, 2019
Virginia Court of Appeals reversing trial court's imposition of general internet usage restriction as a condition of probation without articulating why such a condition would be narrowly tailored.
People v. Morger (Ill. 2019)
Posted: November 21, 2019
Illinois Supreme Court opinion finding that, as a condition of supervision, a total ban from access to social media websites violates the First Amendment.
United States v. Doby (D. Kan. 2019)
Posted: November 9, 2019
Federal District Court for the District of Kansas rejecting defendant's pre-trial argument that federal SORNA constitutes compelled speech in the context of a failure to register indictment.
Meyer v. Stacken (D. Minn. 2019)
Posted: September 25, 2019
Federal trial court in Minnesota refusing to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit alleging constitutional violations stemming from MSOP officials refusing to allow family visitations with civilly committed individual.