Prop. 35 case has a court date on September 10 at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The topic is whether the current preliminary injunction was properly granted. More information / documents
Sept 9: Court to Hear Arguments on Right to Anonymous Speech in Prop. 35 Case
September 9 / EFF: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will hear oral arguments Tuesday in Doe v. Harris, EFF’s challenge to California’s Proposition 35, which requires registered sex offenders to turn over all of their Internet identifiers and service providers to local law enforcement authorities.
In November 2012, California passed Prop. 35 through ballot initiative. The day after the election, we brought a lawsuit with the ACLU of Northern California, challenging parts of the initiative as violating the First Amendment. The court granted a temporary restraining order later that day and, in January 2013, granted a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the law after finding we’d shown a substantial likelihood that the challenged portions of Prop. 35 were unconstitutional. Full Article
Listen to the oral argument (Sept 10)
This was on ballot presented to voters as further punishment, so even on its face its unlawful ….they
cannot put free Americans back into restraint parole
conditions its unlawful ….they cannot force you to give
communication info unless every citizen in the state does
so as well and/or a warrant to search for cause of a crime
or its unlawful …..you cannot make free speech a crime or
obstruct free speech or restrain free speech when communication info was not given…its unlawful …its un-Constitutional.
OK, it’s February. It’s been 145 days since the oral arguments were given. Every case heard in September and before, most in October, and even some in November have already been decided. Why is the court taking so long with our case??
I really really hate this. I really do. I have a bad feeling that, even though the judges were very skeptical against the state during the arguments, that they are taking their cues from other states and jurisdictions, and coming up with wordsmithing options so they can cede registrants’ Constitutional rights to that of the sex offender mania fallout.
I will have to say this: If they decide against us, that would be the biggest disconnect between judicial comments and activity during the oral arguments, and the actual decision, possibly in court history.
Is there ANY possible way we can get a timetable on the decision? ANY way???
I just got word that one of the judges is having issues with their family. That is apparently what’s causing the delay.
Keep in mind that it took the 10th Circuit almost 10 months to decide Doe v. Shurtleff, and their ruling flied in the face of SCOTUS precedent – using an exception to strict scrutiny in 1st Amendment jurisprudence that SCOTUS warned should not be used outside of zoning law cases, as it could eviscerate the 1st Amendment.