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2011
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Andrea Fields, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. Judy P. Smith, et al., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees
U.S. Court of Appeals (7th Circuit).
The U.S. Appeals Court affirms the District Court’s decision that Wisconsin’s Act 105, the Inmate Sex Change Prevention Act, violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. It should be noted that the plaintiffs had been receiving hormone treatment prior to the Acts passage.... Read More
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2010
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Muhammad Shabazz Farrakan et al, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. Christine O. Gregoire et al, Defendants-Appellees; No. 06-35669
U.S. Court of Appeals (9th).
“Plaintiffs, minority citizens of Washington state who have lost their right to vote pursuant to the state’s felon disenfranchisement provision, filed this action in 1996 challenging that provision on the ground that, due to racial discrimination in the state’s criminal justice system, the automatic disenfranchisement of felons results in the denial of the right to vote on account of race, in violation of § 2 of the Voting Rights Act (“VRA”), 42 U.S.C. § 1973…We reverse and grant summary judgmen... Read More
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51 p.
2009
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United States v. Comstock
U.S. Court of Appeals (4th Circuit).
The Fourth Circuit unanimously affirmed the district court's decision that 18 U.S.C. 4248 of the Adam Walsh Act is unconstitutional. The federal government does not have the authority to enact U.S.C. 4248 which concerns the civil commitment of sex offenders following their incarceration.... Read More
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19 p.


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