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On Tuesday, the 11th Circuit grappledBruce Henry’s 14th Amendment challenge to Alabama’s residency restriction barring certain sex offenders from living with minors, including their own children. Henry, a Tuscaloosa County resident, pleaded guilty in 2013 to federal child pornography possession and served 18 months in prison, completed sex offender treatment and has had no further offenses. In 2021, after marrying

Oral argument in Bruce Henry v. Sheriff of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, et al. will take place today, Tuesday, February 10, 2026 commencing at 9:00 a.m. This is the case where a man is challenging the State of Alabama’s law that prevents him from living WITH HIS OWN SON because of an offense in his past! You can listen to the

A few days ago, we put up a post that revisited Ex Post Facto in light of the recent Supreme Court Decision in Ellingburg v. United States. The essence of Justice Thomas’ concurring opinion was that if it walks like a duck…, if it quacks like a duck…, it doesn’t matter if you want to call it a chicken… it’s

A proposed class of convicted sex offenders failed to meet the high bar required for broad injunctive relief when it made a facial challenge to a Kentucky law that bans their anonymous use of social media, according to a ruling Monday from the Sixth Circuit. A panel of the appeals court vacated a preliminary injunction granted by U.S. District Judge

The Supreme Court’s decision in Holsey Ellingburg v. United States (No. 24-482) should reopen a long-overdue conversation about the constitutional foundations of modern sex offender laws. In Ellingburg, the Court made clear that labels do not control constitutional analysis: when a legal consequence operates like punishment, is imposed as part of a criminal judgment, enforced through the criminal justice system,

A recent federal court decision in United States v. McDonald, (Dist. N. Mex, January 6, 2016) delivers an important reminder to people on probation or supervised release: you do not lose your Fifth Amendment rights just because you are in sex offense treatment or required to take polygraph exams! The court upheld the general requirement that Mr. McDonald participate in