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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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Saint Paul, MN 55105

Professor Eric Janus, Director

eric.janus @mitchellhamline.edu

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Interest of C.G. (Wis. 2022)

Posted: August 16, 2022
Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects transgender woman's challenge to Wisconsin registry based on registry provision preventing registrants from legally changing their names, concluding that (1) under well established precedent, placement on the registry is not a “punishment” under the Eighth Amendment and, even if it was, registration is neither cruel not unusual, and (2) petitioner’s right to free speech does not encompass the power to compel the State to facilitate a change of her legal name.

Interest of C.G. (Wis. 2022)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: Eighth Amendment, First Amendment, SORN, Transgender, Wisconsin

State v. Jendusa (Wis. 2021)

Posted: March 11, 2021
Wisconsin Supreme Court opinion holding that a database maintained by the state DOC of recidivism rates is discoverable under state discovery statutes in a SVP proceeding.

State v. Jendusa (Wis. 2021)

Category: Civil Commitment Cases Tag: 7th Cir., Due Process, Wisconsin

State v. C.G. (Wis. Ct. App. 2021)

Posted: January 20, 2021
Wisconsin Court of Appeals opinion holding, in the context of an appeal over the stay of a juvenile sex offender registration order, that the inability to change one's name under state law does not implicate the freedom of expression.

State v. C.G. (Wis. Ct. App. 2021)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 1st Amendment, 7th Cir., Wisconsin

In re Commitment of Stephenson (Wis. 2020)

Posted: December 21, 2020
Wisconsin Supreme Court opinion holding that expert evidence was not required in order to continue to find that a petitioner met the criteria for indefinite civil detention, and that the evidence was sufficient at trial.

In re Commitment of Stephenson (Wis. 2020)

Category: Civil Commitment Cases Tag: 7th Cir., Evidentiary Standards, Wisconsin

Krebs v. Graveley (E.D. Wis. 2020)

Posted: March 28, 2020
Federal trial court in Wisconsin dismissing a First Amendment complaint alleging the unconstitutionality of a Wisconsin state law prohibiting name changes for people with past sex offense convictions.

Krebs v. Graveley (E.D. Wis. 2020)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 7th Cir., First Amendment, Wisconsin

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.

State v. Jackson (Wis. Ct. App. 2019)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 1st Amendment, 7th Cir., Anonymous Speech, Internet Identifiers, Wisconsin

Hoffman v. Village of Pleasant Prairie (E.D. Wis. 2017)

Posted: October 27, 2017
Civil suit brought by registrants in Wisconsin challenging local residency restrictions. District Court found that the restrictions violated prohibition against ex post facto punishments and equal protection.

Hoffman v. Village of Pleasant Prairie (E.D. Wis. 2017)

Category: Residency Cases Tag: 7th Cir., Equal Protection, Ex Post Facto, Wisconsin

McGee v. Bartow (7th Cir. 2010)

Posted: July 26, 2017
Seventh Circuit affirming dismissal of habeas corpus petition by civilly committed individual who alleged, inter alia, that diagnoses of paraphilia and personality disorder NOS as well as failure to specifically find lack of volitional control by committing court violated constitutional rights.

McGee v. Bartow (7th Cir. 2010)

Category: Civil Commitment Cases Tag: 7th Cir., Civil Commitment, Habeas Corpus, Paraphilia Diagnosis, Personality Disorder, Wisconsin

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