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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)

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

  • McGuire v. Marshall (11th Cir. 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

Bomgaars v. State of Iowa (Iowa 2021)

Posted: December 6, 2021
Iowa Supreme Court opinion holding that although inmates have a liberty interest in parole, the state is not violating inmates' right to due process by delaying sex offense treatment that must completed to be meaningfully considered for parole. The opinion states that the Iowa Department of Corrections has acted reasonably in attempting to address the fact there are too many individuals convicted of sex offenses in the system to provide treatment on a timely basis.

Bomgaars v. State of Iowa (Iowa 2021)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: Due Process, Iowa, Parole, Treatment

Stradford v. Wetzel (E.D. Pa. 2021)

Posted: February 15, 2021
Federal trial court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania holding that Pennsylvania's practice of treating people convicted of sex offenses differently than other individuals for the purposes of placement in halfway houses due to community concerns violated Equal Protection.

Stradford v. Wetzel (E.D. Pa. 2021)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 3rd Cir., Equal Protection, Parole, Pennsylvania

People v. Suarez (N.Y. App. Div. 2021)

Posted: February 11, 2021
New York Appellate Division opinion holding that New York state legislature did not intend school grounds exclusion provisions of state sex offense law to apply to youthful offenders.

People v. Suarez (N.Y. App. Div. 2021)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 2nd Cir., Juvenile Registration, New York, Parole

In re Gadlin (Cal. 2020)

Posted: December 29, 2020
California Supreme Court Opinion holding that a voter-passed constitutional amendment expanding parole eligibility to individuals convicted of non-violent felonies included non-violent sex offenses or people otherwise required to register.

In re Gadlin (Cal. 2020)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 9th Cir., California, Parole

Johnson v. Superintendent (N.Y. 2020)

Posted: November 24, 2020
New York Court of Appeals opinion holding that New York's practice of imprisoning some individuals convicted of sex offenses past dates they would otherwise be released for want of legal housing was not unconstitutional.

Johnson v. Superintendent (N.Y. 2020)

Category: Residency Cases, SORN Cases Tag: 2nd Cir., 8th Amendment, Due Process, Housing, New York, Parole

Blanke v. Board of Pardons (Utah)

Posted: May 1, 2020
Utah Supreme Court opinion affirming that Appellant's due process rights were not violated when the parole board required him to complete a sex offender treatment program, where he was convicted of a non-sexual offense requiring registration and made statements in a presentence report indicating that sexual conduct was connected with the offense of conviction.

Blanke v. Board of Pardons (Utah)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 10th Cir., Due Process, Parole, Utah

Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Cal. Ct. App. 3rd 2020)

Posted: February 14, 2020
California Court of Appeal decision finding that California state regulations excluding those convicted of non-violent sex offenses from parole eligibility contradicted plain text of a ballot initiatve, and thus was unlawful.

Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Cal. Ct. App. 3rd 2020)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 9th Cir., California, Parole

In re Parole of Ronald Irwin (Mich. Ct. App. 2019)

Posted: January 30, 2020
Michigan Court of Appeals reversing a decision denying parole to an person who was serving a sentence for sex offenses, on the grounds that the parole board did not abuse its discretion and that a treatment completion requirement did not violate state law.

In re Parole of Ronald Irwin (Mich. Ct. App. 2019)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 6th Cir., Michigan, Parole, Treatment Programs

People ex rel Negron v. Superintendent (N.Y. App. Div. 3rd 2019)

Posted: June 12, 2019
New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, holding that SARA-related housing restrictions did not apply to individual who was serving a sentence for a non-sexual offense.

People ex rel Negron v. Superintendent (N.Y. App. Div. 3rd 2019)

Category: Residency Cases, SORN Cases Tag: 2nd Cir., New York, Parole

In re Taylor (Ca. 2015)

Posted: December 19, 2018
California Supreme Court invalidating blanket imposition of residential banishment laws to those convicted of sex offenses and and parole.

In re Taylor (Ca. 2015)

Category: Residency Cases Tag: California, Parole, Residential Banishment, Substantive Due Process

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