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SCOTUS: Court may strike law barring sex offenders from social media

·February 27, 2017
·10 Comments

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared likely Monday to strike down a North Carolina law that prohibits sex offenders from using Facebook and other social networking sites. At least five…

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SCOTUS: Court to consider social media access for sex offenders [updated with media links]

·February 24, 2017
·24 Comments

In April 2010, Lester Packingham’s traffic ticket was dismissed, prompting him to take to Facebook to celebrate. He posted that “God is Good! How about I got so much favor…

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SCOTUS: Removal of an immigrant for “sexual abuse of a minor”

·February 21, 2017
·2 Comments

The facts of the case sound like an episode of “Law and Order SVU.” In 2000, Juan Esquivel-Quintana’s parents lawfully brought him to the United States and settled in Sacramento,…

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The Man Arrested for Praising Jesus

·February 21, 2017
·20 Comments

Lester Packingham’s Facebook post is headed for the Supreme Court... Lester Gerard Packingham was having a really good day back on April 27, 2010. The North Carolina man had just…

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Packingham v. North Carolina – Oral Argument February 27

·January 27, 2017
·28 Comments

Issue: Whether, under the court’s First Amendment precedents, a law that makes it a felony for any person on the state's registry of former sex offenders to “access” a wide…

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EFF to Supreme Court: Strike Social Media Ban for Sex Offenders

·December 24, 2016
·14 Comments

Yesterday, EFF and its allies Public Knowledge and the Center for Democracy & Technology filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down under the First Amendment a North…

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MI: Justice denies Michigan’s appeal to halt sex offender ruling

·November 15, 2016
·69 Comments

A U.S. Supreme Court justice has rejected Michigan’s request to halt a lower court decision that found the state unconstitutionally put additional restrictions on sex offenders long after their convictions.…

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Supreme Court: Court adds five new cases to docket

·October 28, 2016
·58 Comments

... Among the court’s other grants today, Packingham v. North Carolina is the case of Lester Packingham, a North Carolina man who became a registered sex offender after he was…

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A Defender Office for Supreme Court Advocacy?

·July 21, 2016
·2 Comments

An “independent federal public defender office charged with representing poor defendants before the United States Supreme Court” is necessary to fill gaps in legal services to the poor and “better…

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CA RSOL president Janice Bellucci sworn into the U. S. Supreme Court Bar Association

·June 20, 2016
·60 Comments

CA RSOL president Janice Bellucci was sworn into the U. S. Supreme Court Bar Association today. As a member of that association, she is eligible to argue cases before the…

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SCOTUS: No registration update required after moving out of the country (Nichols)

·April 4, 2016
·41 Comments

The Court issued two opinions on Monday morning. In Nichols v. United States, in an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court unanimously ruled that the Sex Offender Notification and…

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The Smear Campaign Against Potential SCOTUS Nominee Jane Kelly Is an Attack on the Constitution

·March 16, 2016
·10 Comments

There are few constitutional provisions more important than the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a right to defense counsel. That civil liberty, which applies even for indigent defendants who can’t afford…

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SCOTUS: Justices on both sides invoke Scalia in sentencing case

·March 2, 2016
·5 Comments

WASHINGTON — The late Justice Antonin Scalia's writing turned up in dueling Supreme Court opinions Tuesday, a fitting tribute to the justice who co-authored an entire book on interpreting the…

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SCOTUS: Justices skeptical about government’s interpretation of sex-offender-registration law (Analysis)

·March 2, 2016
·26 Comments

In the early days of Monday Night Football, as soon as it became evident that the game was effectively over, color commentator “Dandy” Don Meredith would begin to croon, “Turn…

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SCOTUS: Justices weigh whether sex offenders should be tracked worldwide

·March 1, 2016
·27 Comments

Members of the Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical of the federal government’s argument that a registered sex offender should be required to notify authorities when moving to another country.…

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Argument preview: When a sex offender moves out of the country, does he have to tell anyone? [UPDATED]

·February 23, 2016
·61 Comments

UPDATED with Oral Argument - When ____ ____ ____, a federally convicted sex offender, left Kansas in 2012 to go live in the Philippines, one might have thought the United…

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SCOTUS declines to hear Ex-Post Facto case

·December 15, 2015
·28 Comments

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a registered citizen the opportunity to further challenge whether a registration law applied to him retroactively violates the Constitution. As a result, the Court…

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SCOTUS to Decide Reach of Sex Offender Registry

·November 7, 2015
·42 Comments

The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act requires sex offenders who move to a foreign country to notify their prior…

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