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Supreme Court rules on sex offender registration act
January 23, 2012 by Jaclyn Belczyk
The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Monday in Reynolds v. United States that the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) does not require pre-act offenders to register before the attorney general validly specifies that the act's registration provisions apply to them. The attorney general.... [more]
Supreme Court opens 2011 term
October 3, 2011 by Jaclyn Belczyk
The US Supreme Court opened its 2011 term Monday with oral arguments in two cases. In Reynolds v. United States, the court heard arguments on the retroactive application of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), which requires convicted sex offenders to register. The attorney....... [more]
Supreme Court rules sex offender registration suit moot
June 27, 2011 by Maureen Cosgrove
The US Supreme Court, ruled Monday in a per curiam opinion in US v. Juvenile Male that the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had no authority to rule that the requirements of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act of 2006 (SORNA) violate the ex post facto clause of the.... [more]
Supreme Court hears arguments in sex offender registration case
February 24, 2010 by Jaclyn Belczyk
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Carr v. United States, the court heard arguments on whether the failure to register provision of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) can be applied retroactively to underlying offenses occurring before.... [more]
Federal judge rules sex offender residency law unconstitutional
February 14, 2009 by Steve Czajkowski
A judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled this week that the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act of 2006 (SORNA), which makes it a federal crime for a sex offender to attempt to move to another state while failing to register in a nationwide database....... [more]
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