{"id":1095,"date":"2018-12-19T13:28:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T19:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2019-10-21T15:29:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:29:24","slug":"doe-v-city-of-lynn-mass-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2018\/12\/19\/doe-v-city-of-lynn-mass-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Doe v. City of Lynn (Mass. 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"introduction-wrapper\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Doe v. City of Lynn, 36 N.E.3d 18 (Mass. 2015)<\/h2>\n<p><strong><strong>Nature of Case: <\/strong><\/strong> Plaintiffs, class of people required to register in Lynn, Mass, brought class action against local legislation that enacted residence banishment laws. Plaintiffs brought a number of constitutional claims. Trial court held that it violated the Home Rule amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution. City appealed.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nHolding:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that the local law enacting residential banishment for registrants was unconstitutional under the Home Rule amendment, and that local laws regulating registrants was effectively preempted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Case Documents<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2018\/12\/Massachusetts-Supreme-Judicial-Court-Opinion.pdf\">Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Opinion<\/a>\u00a0| view via <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=8113714522742060513&amp;q=SJC-11822&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4000006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>News and Related Materials<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclum.org\/en\/news\/massachusetts-high-court-unanimously-strikes-down-lynn-sex-offender-residency-restrictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massachusetts High Court Unanimously Strikes Down Lynn Sex Offender Residency Restrictions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that residential banishment law  for those convicted of sex offenses that was enacted by city was effectively preempted under Massachusetts Home Rule amendment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2018\/12\/19\/doe-v-city-of-lynn-mass-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Doe v. City of Lynn (Mass. 2015)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[179,208,105,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-1095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-residency-cases","7":"tag-1st-cir","8":"tag-massachusetts","9":"tag-preemption","10":"tag-residential-banishment","11":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}