Criminal Law

MA: SJC: Sex offender registration needs to account for homeless
SJC: Sex offender registration needs to account for homeless By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press 02/15/2008 Daily Hampshire Gazette BOSTON - The state's highest court said Thursday that the Sex Offender Registry Board needs to change its registration form so sex...

New article asserting Commerce Clause problems with federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act
Professor Corey Rayburn Yung has this important new article posted on SSRN, titled "The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act and the Commerce Clause...

Tenth Circuit's Construction Narrows Federal Sex Offender Registry Law
The provision of the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act that makes it a crime to travel interstate and fail to register as a sex offender does not apply to someone whose travel was complete before the law went...

Valuable new paper on sex offender registration realities
Professor Wayne Logan has this interesting new little paper on SSRN, titled "Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification: Past, Present, and Future...

Interesting legal developments concerning sex offender regulations
Two interesting legal stories developed Monday concerning legal challenges to certain state sex offender laws: The story from Georgia concerns sex offender registries and is well covered by Sex Crimes in this post headlined "Georgia Supreme Court Rules that Registration...

Veto of Sex Offender Registration Reform
And this was his own party that controls the legislature! From the Bangor Daily News: AUGUSTA, Maine ? Gov...

CA1: sex offender registration
US v. Alcantara-Mendez, No. 06-2675 (unpublished). This is strange. A sex offender didn't register...

Scholarship: "Sex Offender Registration in Indian Country"
VIRGINIA DAVIS, National Congress of American Indians, and KEVIN K. WASHBURN, University of Arizona - James E...

Study on sex offender registration in New Jersey suggests its ineffectiveness
This new story from New Jersey, headlined " Report finds Megan's Law fails to reduce sex crimes, deter repeat offenders in N...

Sex Offender Lists
Registries by State and County

Is a child fathered out of wedlock by an American diplomat to a foreign women on foreign soil entitled to US Citizenship by jus sanguinis?
This is a very tough situation your friend is in. It is difficult to know the ex...

Does a lawyer have the right to ask what your religion is when it has nothing to do with the situation?
In divorce issues and the children's well being religion doesn't matte...

Can a tow company charge as much as they want to tow your car if it is parked illegally?
The towing companies contract with condo associations and the like to tow cars i...

Personal information/online harassment?
Quit talking with people on message boards that support these activities. The se...

Hi. If a woman is pregnant and the father requests she abort (because he doesnt want to be a father) and the woman refuses, can he still be made to pay child support if: 1. he IS the father 2. he IS the father but his na
Yes if he is teh father he can be made to pay.
It doesn't matter if h...

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Murphy City, TX
$255,000 settlement in controversial pedophile news program case.

Newspaper Employees
Chinese Daily News must pay $5.19 million class action settlement for failing to pay overtime.