United States Seventh Circuit

In defendant's 42 U.S.C section 1983 action challenging Illinois' mandatory life-long registration requirement, arising from defendant's 2003 guilty plea to a misdemeanor offense of non-consensual sexual contact in New York under assurances that he would not be required to register, dismissal of the suit is affirmed as the New York order was silent as to registration in any other state and, absent such language, there is no relevant provision to which Illinois must give full faith an credit. Furthermore, even if there had been such a provision, New York lacks the power to dictate the means by which Illinois can protect its public.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/12/2009
• Decided 03/17/2010
• Published 03/17/2010

Judges

• CUDAHY, Circuit Judge., Before CUDAHY, MANION, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas Peters, Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mary Ellen Welsh, Attorney, Office of The Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.