Kennedy v. Allera

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that SORNA imposes obligations on a sex offender that are independent of state law
• affirming that “SORNA’s clear and unequivocal requirement that individuals convicted of sex offenses must register as sex offenders under federal law applie[s] . . . even though Maryland had not fully implemented SORNA.”
• noting SORNA does not require the states to comply with its directives but rather gives states a choice whether to do so or risk losing a portion of their funding
• “[Wjhile SORNA imposes a duty on the sex offender to register, it nowhere imposes a requirement on the State to accept such registration.”
• “[W]hile SORNA imposes a duty on the sex offender to register, it nowhere imposes a requirement on the State to accept such registration.”
• “While a court may not, of course, simply assume the existence of Article III standing, prudential standing questions may be avoided in order to decide a case on the merits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).