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Recent Cases

  • People v. Superior Court of Santa Cruz County (Cal. Ct. App. 2023)

  • North Carolina v. Lamp (N.C. 2022)

  • Matter of Stevens (Wash. 2022)

  • People v. Talluto (N.Y. 2022)

  • United States v. Navarro (5th Cir. 2022)

  • 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)

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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

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madeline.ranum @mitchellhamline.edu

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.

People v. Morger (Ill. 2019)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 1st Amendment, 7th Cir., Conditions of Release, Illinois, Overbreadth

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.

United States v. Doby (D. Kan. 2019)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 10th Cir., 1st Amendment, AWA, Compelled Speech, Kansas

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.

Meyer v. Stacken (D. Minn. 2019)

Category: Civil Commitment Cases Tag: 1st Amendment, Familial Relationships, Substantive Due Process

Pesci v. Budz (11th Cir. 2019)

Posted: August 21, 2019
11th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion finding that civil commitment center's ban on committee's publication and subsequent page-limitations did not offend First Amendment rights.

Pesci v. Budz (11th Cir. 2019)

Category: Civil Commitment Cases Tag: 11th Cir., 1st Amendment

Bailey v. Commonwealth (Va. Ct. App. 2019)

Posted: August 1, 2019
Virginia Court of Appeals affirming conviction and upholding state law that required registration of internet identifiers.

Bailey v. Commonwealth (Va. Ct. App. 2019)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 1st Amendment, 4th Cir., Internet Identifiers, Virginia

Iowa v. Aschbrenner (Iowa 2019)

Posted: April 7, 2019
Iowa Supreme Court Opinion affirming the conviction of Appellant who was charged with violating Internet Identifier reporting requirements over challenges based on Ex Post Facto Clause and First Amendment grounds.

Iowa v. Aschbrenner (Iowa 2019)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 1st Amendment, 8th Cir., Ex Post Facto, Internet Restrictions, Iowa

Ex Parte Odom (Tex. Ct. App. 2018)

Posted: February 20, 2019
Texas Court of Appeals affirming the trial court's denial of a constitutional challenge to a provision of Texas law that requires people required to register as sex offenders also register their internet identifiers.

Ex Parte Odom (Tex. Ct. App. 2018)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 1st Amendment, 5th Cir., Internet Identifiers, Texas

Does v. Simi Valley et. al. (C.D. Cal. 2012)

Posted: February 20, 2019
Federal district court granting application for temporary restraining order, enjoining local authorities from enforcing ordinance that would have forced those required to register to place a sign on the exterior of their homes on Halloween that there was no candy at the residence.

Does v. Simi Valley et. al. (C.D. Cal. 2012)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 1st Amendment, 9th Circuit, California, Compelled Speech, Halloween, Sign Posting

Doe v. City of Albuquerque (10th Cir. 2012)

Posted: December 19, 2018
Tenth Circuit affirming district court finding that City of Albuquerque's ban of people on the registry from entering city libraries was unconstitutional under First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Doe v. City of Albuquerque (10th Cir. 2012)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 10th Cir., 1st Amendment, New Mexico, Presence Restrictions

Doe v. Tilley (E.D. Ky. 2017)

Posted: October 27, 2017
Federal civil rights lawsuit striking down Kentucky state social media ban and internet identifier registration requirements.

Doe v. Tilley (E.D. Ky. 2017)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 14th Amendment, 1st Amendment, 6th Cir., Internet Identifiers, Internet Restrictions, Kentucky, Void-for-Vagueness

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