Doe v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting argument that Iowa’s residency restriction was excessive because it applied to registrants as a class
• upholding restrictions on residing near schools for sex offenders even without an individualized showing that the particular offender had previously victimized children
• “In view of our conclusion that the statute is not punitive, it follows that the law is not a ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ in violation of the Eighth Amendment.”
• “Iowa residency restriction does not prevent a sex offender from entering or leaving any part of the [s]tate *** and *** does not erect any actual barrier to intrastate movement”
• Iowa sex offender residency restriction “does not directly regulate the family relationship or prevent any family member from residing with a sex offender in a residence that is consistent with the statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).