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...
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The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases Monday and summarily reversed a Ninth Circuit decision in a California parole case. In Howes v. Fields , the...
Federal appeals court upholds indefinite detention of mentally ill sex offenders
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled unanimously Monday that a federal law allowing for the indefinite detention of mentally ill sex offenders is constitutional. On remand from the Supreme Court, the...
Supreme Court rules sex offender registration law does not apply retroactively
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in Carr v. United States that the failure to register provision of the Sex Offender Registration...
Supreme Court hears arguments in sex offender registration case
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Carr v. United States , the court heard arguments on whether the...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday added 10 cases to its 2009 docket. In addition to taking a case dealing with the Second Amendment and another on a controversial terrorism law , the...
DOJ asks Fourth Circuit to rehear civil commitment case en banc
US Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers on Monday asked the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to revisit a January decision in which a three-judge panel ruled that indefinite civil commitment of "sexually...
Federal judge rules sex offender residency law unconstitutional
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...
