ID: Judge Rejects Idaho Sex Offender Registration Lawsuit

A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s sex offender registration laws, but the 134 anonymous sex offenders who brought the lawsuit have the option to refile the case if they can show the current laws caused them actual harm. Full Article

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I would bet my life savings all 134 can show harm, YES, I SAID ALL 134!!!!

Actually the Registry requirements were ruled to be punitive by another court decision recently. This judge seems out of touch with current events. Maybe this group failed to mention such precesnt.

All 134 experienced harm but proving it is another matter. They may be able to start by submitting sworn testimony in the form of dispositions if not done already, but they have to have corroboration to have a strong case. Like eviction notices. Family burdens. Employment loss. Short story: keep records.

So let me see if I understand this correctly. Idaho, Colorado, Pa. et all can bring class actions against the registry, why can’t we in Ca? I mean, really. I am sure that we can scrape up more than 134 plaintiffs. Can you imagine a class action suit with a larger group and the effect it would have. I think it is time Janice. We cannot sit on the sidelines and pea shoot the residency restrictions. The registry itself needs to be challenged. There are plenty of precedents and studies.
This is Ca.. we have the biggest pool of plaintiffs in the country and it would not be that difficult to find any.

This article has a few more quotes:

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/may/28/judge-rejects-idaho-sex-offender-registration-laws/

Like this:
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“One cannot simply name a large group of Plaintiffs, allege a dozen causes of actions, and expect the Court to figure out which plaintiffs have suffered which harms,” the judge wrote in the ruling released May 17.

They’ll also have to show any harm they suffered outweighs the benefits sex registration laws offer society, Nye said.

“While the outcome of certain regulations may negatively affect a person socially, economically or even legally, the Court must weigh any competing interests,” the judge found. “Time and time again, Courts have found that the protection of society outweighs any inconvenience or diminution in rights suffered by registrants.”
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It doesn’t sound like a very well done case. I hope it wasn’t a scam like the Estes-Hightower one in Texas/Florida and that the Idaho attorney is at least legit.

https://floridaactioncommittee.org/texas-law-firm-solicits-registrants-in-florida/

I don’t think any large cases will win, unless they target Substantive Due Process and Bill of Attainder. All the other attacks you’ll have to specifically show and prove all individual burdens and compare them to the crimes. With SDP and B of A, you can attack the core problem. No matter how minor, or major, the crime, there was no Substantive Due Process to determine the level or duration of punishment, or civil regulation needed to “protect the public” and that is the common denominator to attack the registry on.

@Chris F

Thanks for bringing that up for us to read and show it will take a Millard model case filing to get anywhere at a minimum with additions of SDP and BoA challenges. Well written. Individual harm suffered with documentation needs to be noted.

So why doesn’t’ it have to first be proven that a blanket SO registration actually makes a society safer? How can registering people who had no contact offenses protect society from a person doing a contact offense? How does registering people who had a single offense with a family friend in their home actually protect society from someone who might kidnap? Should we classify all politicians who engage in untruths or unethical acts with those that have felony convictions? True justice will weigh each case by its own merit. Hysterical justice will engage in witch hunts.

I am here TS. I have just been really swamped with this lawsuit and school finals. The rules of evidence and surrounding discovery are complex and are taking every moment of my time. I check in every once in a while but since these rules are so complex and specific a lot of what I am doing is not stuff that many people want to get into because it is so complicated. But never fear I am on it. I am just beginning to understand the entire legal process for litigating a civil case. Whenever I am done I really hope my records that I am keeping on the process will be of great benefit to others as Emily Horowitz suggested. I am keeping a complete chronological document of the entire processes.
By the way when I went to the scheduling conference the judge once again spanked on the AG. After we could not agree on the scheduling the judge stated she would issue a standard scheduling order and this is where I stated “your Honor, about this partial motion to dis” and that is far as I got at which point the judge kind of put her finger up and interrupted me and started drilling on the AG. The judge answered every question I was about to ask. She stated to the AG in no easy terms “about this partial motion to dismiss Miss Boutin, you mentioned that you maybe filing a subsequent motion to dismiss and let me tell you right now you have a high hurdle to clear when it comes to Rule 12(g) that unambiguously states that you cannot do that once you have brought such a motion and did not plead your defenses in that motion. Furthermore, you mentioned both orally and in the status report that you maybe filing other motion or what have you and I want to remind you that you cannot file anything else until you answer the remaining of the Plaintiff’s claims 1-5 in his complaint.” OMG if i lost right now just these two hearings that I have been to so far would have been worth all the effort and that is not an exaggeration. It is classic when you are on the other end and you get to see them squirm, which is exactly what she did as she was being berated by the judge. I know it doesn’t matter what the judge states or how she bashes the AG, what matters is the rulings and she has the first hit from the Magistrates order but it isn’t sealed until the district judge rules on it. It is John Mendez and he has been known to be a free thinker and from what I have read he is not afraid to go against the grain if he thinks it will serve justice.

As far as these broad lawsuits in class actions, good luck. The courts keep telling these idiots haw to fight this but the idiots don’t seem to care or are just to ignorant to realize it and run with it. I really do not see how many more ways the courts can tell people that there has to be actual or imminent harm to YOU and not just some overly-broad anecdotal and conclusonary statements or claims. These attorneys should be disbarred or severely reprimanded by the courts and the state bar associations for bringing these frivolous and foundation-less cases. These guys and girls, including everyone of us, have cases based on individual merits.

Just as an example of the complexities of the discovery issues can anyone tell me, without a doubt and cite any source, if the following is subject matter that can be judicially noticed by the court????
8. California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB) End of Year Report 2014: “Some of the consequences of lengthy and unnecessary registration requirements actually destabilize the lives of registrants and those – such as families – whose lives are often substantially impacted. Such consequences are thought to raise levels of known risk factors while providing no discernible benefit in terms of community safety.” [P. 12] http://www.casomb.org/docs/CASOMB_End_of_Year_Report_to_Legislature_2014.pdf [visited April 4, 2018]. Complaint p. 4 ¶ 12.

This is what I am going to state in my response to the objections from the AG on my motion and request for judicial notice.
Plaintiff wants to be clear, he requests judicial notice of the following determinations and conclusions in the following governmental reports found on government websites; See RJN EFC no. 29. Plaintiff is Pro Se and unsure if the Court may recognize and take judicial notice of determinations and conclusions based upon indisputable facts and for which such conclusions are presented by governmental agencies.

I cannot tell you how long it took me just to find out whether I have to respond to the AG’s objections and am still not sure if I have to or not but I am going to anyways. Check out Zuckerberg’s response to the objections to his request for judicial notice, this is the only thing I can find on the subject and like I said it took forever to find this case.
https://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/california/candce/5:2007cv01389/189975/307

I can tell you guys and girls, in my opinion and case some of the most important issues seem indisputably unconstitutional without further due process and a determination beyond a reasonable doubt that the feared characteristic that the government is attempting to prevent, I.E. recidivism rates are justifiable in your individual cases just as Chris states. Good luck proving beyond a reasonable doubt that you are dangerous. Even using so called hearings with psychs or whatever they cannot contradict the stats. Those are hard numbers. just think about it, the stats that are of all released sex offenders and are still an incredibly low at around 1%. So it is only reasonable to infer that rate includes the highest risk offenders so all those re offenses were most likely committed by high risk offenders so all the rest are completely negligible if not non-existent. All the cases have been shepherdized as well. so it is all good law. This is just barely touches on tow of the issues that effect most of us.
Some of the real issues for most CA’s:

Ca. Civil Code § 1786.18 (7) Records of arrest, indictment, information, misdemeanor complaint, or conviction of a crime that, from the date of disposition, release, or parole, antedate the report by more than seven years.
Presence restrictions cover vast swaths of areas barres Plaintiff from employment.off limits. I have three refusals from adds on craigslist stating it is because of these laws that they cannot hire me. Plus>>
EEOC (US Equal Opportunity Commission) web site specifically lists government registries like the Sex Offender Registry as valid research tools to deny employment, even though the lengths of time on the registry far exceeds the time other criminal convictions can be used to deny employment. https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/arrest_conviction.cfm#sdendnote24sym [visited March 20, 2018].
See Humphries v. Cnty. of L.A., 554 F.3d 1170, 1191 (9th Cir. 2009) (holding that loss of future employment was sufficient to satisfy stigma-plus test); Valmonte v. Bane, 18 F.3d 992, 1002 (2d. Cir. 1994) (mentioning briefly that there is no significant distinction between losing one’s current position in employment and losing one’s potential position in employment). See Ky. Dept. of Corrections v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 460 (1989); Paul v. Davis, 424 U.S. 693, 711 (1976) (clarifying that procedural due process protections apply when individual suffers stigma from state instituted reputational harm that results in loss of certain rights); Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 570-71 (1972).
Also see Doe v. Snyder (834 F.3d 696 (6th Cir. 2016)) holding that “no disbarment case we are aware of has confronted a law with such sweeping conditions or approved of disbarment without some nexus between the regulatory purpose and the job at issue. SORA’s restrictions are again far more onerous than those considered in Smith. And this factor too therefore weighs in Plaintiffs’ favor.” Id.

CA Family Code section. 3030(a) (1) No person shall be granted physical or legal custody of, or unsupervised visitation with, a child if the person is required to be registered as a sex offender under Section 290 of the Penal Code where the victim was a minor, or if the person has been convicted under Section 273a, 273d, or 647.6 of the Penal Code, (2) No person shall be granted physical or legal custody of, or unsupervised visitation with, a child if anyone residing in the person’s household is required, as a result of a felony conviction in which the victim was a minor, to register as a sex offender under Section 290 of the Penal Code.”
Id. at Section (3) The fact that a child is permitted unsupervised contact with a person who is required, as a result of a felony conviction in which the victim was a minor, to be registered as a sex offender under Section 290 of the Penal Code, shall be prima facie evidence that the child is at significant risk.”

See, Troxel v. Granville 530 U.S. 57, 65 (2000) (“the interest of parents in the care, custody and control of their children—is perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court.”).
See also, Plaintiff is entitled to “enjoy[] the full protection of the First Amendment.” Doe v. Harris, 772 F.3d 563, 572 (9th Cir. 2014) (alteration in original; emphasis added). Plaintiff is also entitled to full protection of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Clauses of the United States Constitution as well.
Cameron v. Tomes, 783 F. Supp. 1511, 1525 (D. Mass. 1992) (holding that prohibiting visitation with grandchildren restricts one’s liberty).

Hi group,

As I read this article I was thinking this could happen in Texas. I am one of the John Doe’s in the lawsuit.

sorry, there I go posting all kinds of legalese.