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When and how will SCOTUS address residency restrictions?

By Douglas Berman

There is lots of news around the blogosphere about sex offender residency restrictions:

  • How Appealing here collects media coverage of a new brouhaha between the California Supreme Court and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger over enforcement of the state’s residency restriction.
  • Sex Crimes here notes the dispute in California along with the litigation now before the Ohio Supreme Court concerning retroactive application of Ohio’s residency restrictions.
  • f/k/a here laments the extreme residency restrictions recently enacted in Utica, New York and in Newton, New Jersey.

All these developments confirm my instinct that it is only a matter of time before the US Supreme Court is going to have to take up legal challenges to sex offender residency restrictions.  It is interesting to speculate exactly when and how these issues will come before the High Court.