{"id":2574,"date":"2021-05-16T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2021-07-05T12:26:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T17:26:56","slug":"menges-v-knudson-d-mont-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2021\/05\/16\/menges-v-knudson-d-mont-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Menges v. Knudson (D. Mont. 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"introduction-wrapper\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Menges v. Knudson, No. CV 20-178-M-DLC (D. Mont. 2021)<\/h2>\n<p><strong><strong>Nature of Case: <\/strong><\/strong> Plaintiff was required by the state of Montana to register as a sex offender due to a conviction in 1994 for engaging in consensual sex with another male in Idaho. The Plaintiff brought a federal civil rights challenge, alleging that the requirement that he register on that basis was unconstitutional on a variety of grounds and sought a preliminary injunction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holding: <\/strong> The federal district court for the District of Montana entered jugment in the Plaintiff&#8217;s favor and permanently enjoined state defendants from enforcing the provisions of the sex offender registry against him, finding that to do so in his case violates Due Process, Equal Protection, and the right to privacy under the state constitution.<\/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\/2021\/07\/District-Court-Opinion-1.pdf\">District Court Opinion<\/a>\u00a0| view via <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=13623840015224155008&amp;q=CV+20\u2013178\u2013M\u2013DLC&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>New York Times &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/15\/us\/randall-menges-sex-offender-registry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">At 18, He Had Consensual Gay Sex. Montana Wants Him to Stay a Registered Offender<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal trial court opinion finding that Montana&#8217;s requirement that a plaintiff register as a sex offender for engaging in consensual sex with another male violates Equal Protection, Due Process, and privacy rights under the Montana constitution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2021\/05\/16\/menges-v-knudson-d-mont-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Menges v. Knudson (D. Mont. 2021)<\/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":[9],"tags":[42,47,51,168,243],"class_list":{"0":"post-2574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sorn-cases","7":"tag-9th-cir","8":"tag-due-process","9":"tag-equal-protection","10":"tag-montana","11":"tag-right-to-privacy","12":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","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=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}