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Recent Cases

  • 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)

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

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madeline.ranum @mitchellhamline.edu

McDeid v. Johnston (Minn. 2023)

Posted: February 3, 2023
The Minnesota Supreme Court held that patients civilly committed to Minnesota's Sex Offender Program ("MSOP") had a clearly established right to transfer to a less restrictive environment within a reasonable time following issuance of a Minnesota Commitment Appeals Panel transfer order.

McDeid v. Johnston (Minn. 2023)

Category: Civil Commitment Cases, Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center Tag: Civil Commitment, Minnesota, Qualified Immunity

State v. Larson (Minn. 2022)

Posted: November 17, 2022
Minnesota Supreme Court opinion holding that, under Minnesota law, separate convictions for failure to register involving the same assignment of a corrections agent violated prohibitions against double jeopardy.

State v. Larson (Minn. 2022)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: Double Jeopary, Failure to Register, Minnesota, SORN

Gamble v. Minnesota State-Operated Services (8th Cir. 2022)

Posted: May 10, 2022
Eighth Circuit opinion in a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) case affirming district court holding and concluding that civil committees in Minnesota's sex offense civil commitment program participating in a vocational work program are not employees as defined by the FLSA.

Gamble v. Minnesota State-Operated Services (8th Cir. 2022)

Category: Civil Commitment Cases Tag: Due Process, Minnesota

In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of Kenney (Minn. 2021)

Posted: November 3, 2021
Minnesota Supreme Court opinion reversing a judgment of the appellate court regarding a civilly committed individual's petition for reduction in custody, holding that the clear error standard of review does not allow an appellate court to reweigh evidence.

In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of Kenney (Minn. 2021)

Category: Civil Commitment Cases Tag: 8th Cir., Civil Commitment, Clear error, Minnesota, Standard of review

In re Ashman (Minn. Ct. App. 2021)

Posted: June 20, 2021
Minnesota Court of Appeals opinion holding that, under state law, the commitment appeal panel has authority to review a revocation of transfer made by the special review board.

In re Ashman (Minn. Ct. App. 2021)

Category: Civil Commitment Cases Tag: 8th Cir., Minnesota

Bakor v. Barr (8th Cir. 2020)

Posted: May 15, 2020
8th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion finding that criminal sexual conduct and failure to register as a sex offender are both crimes involving moral turpitude for immigration removal purposes.

Bakor v. Barr (8th Cir. 2020)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 8th Cir., Failure to Register, Immigration, Minnesota

Drobec v. Evans (Mn. Dist. Ct. Ramsey County 2019)

Posted: December 4, 2019
Minnesota state district court finding that retroactive application of state's predatory offender statute violated the presumption against the retroactive application of laws.

Drobec v. Evans (Mn. Dist. Ct. Ramsey County 2019)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 8th Cir., Minnesota, Retroactive Application (Non-EPF)

State v. Schnell (Minn. 2019)

Posted: September 16, 2019
Minnesota Supreme Court opinion finding that Minnesota DOC failed to comply with the law in failing to release an individual, or else otherwise modifying conditions of release.

State v. Schnell (Minn. 2019)

Category: Residency Cases Tag: Conditions of Release, Housing, Minnesota

Braylock v. City of Dayton (Hennepin Dist. Ct. 2018).

Posted: March 22, 2019
Hennepin County trial court finding that city's residential banishment laws were unconstitutional under theories of conflict and field preemption

Braylock v. City of Dayton (Hennepin Dist. Ct. 2018).

Category: Residency Cases Tag: Minnesota, Preemption

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