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• State of Ohio v. Cook Classification as a sexual predator does not violate the Retroactivity Clause of Section 28, Article II of the Ohio Constitution.
  
• Supreme Court Defines Rape as an Injury Covered by Workers' Compensation Act The Supreme Court established that psychological trauma which accompanies a physical work-related injury is compensable.
  
• Article III: Sexual Crimes - University of Dayton School of Law The drafters of the 1999 revision to the 1998 MSCCC have combined the three sections of definitions, 3.02.2A, 3.03.5, and 3.05 into one section, 3.01.
  
• Ruling Limits Access to Sex Offender Information Unlike the 49 other states in the country, Massachusetts has a sex-offender registry in theory only despite a federal mandate to create one.
  
• Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals The State appeals the trial court's finding that Act No. 98- 489, 1998 Ala. Act, an amendment to the Community Notification Act[2]("the Act"), codified in 15-20-20 et. al., Ala. Code 1975, is unconstitutional as applied to C.M., C.D.M., and S.D
  
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• Megan's Law Debated Before High Court Opponents of Pennsylvania's "Megan's Law," asked the state Supreme Court to declare the law unconstitutional.
  
• John Doe vs. Porter-Gaud Edward Fischer, a former Porter-Gaud teacher, is charged with molesting 13 boys between 1960 and 1997. Fischer resigned from Porter-Gaud in 1982 after allegations of abuse.
  
• Federal Rules of Evidence Rule 413. Evidence of similar crimes in sex offense cases.
  
• Legal Motion to Exclude Evidence of Penile Plethysmography The motion summarizes the Daubert ruling, extensively quotes to the literature on the subject of sexual behavior assessment and collects the cases which disallow such evidence in legal proceedings.
  
• Sex Offender Sentencing: Focus on Mary Kay Letourneau Sex offender sentencing: Commentary and links to current issues, particularly the case of Mary Kay Letourneau, the Seattle schoolteacher
  
• Frontline: The Child Terror Frontline examines child sexual abuse and how, during the 1980s, mounting fears of child sexual abuse in day care centers led to a new prosecutorial crusade against child molesters in South Florida.
  
• Larry R. Keller v. Fayetteville, AK Police Department Brief in support of motion to dismiss and response to petition for writ of certiorri.
  
• Sexually Violent Predator Law Ruled Constitutional A state appeals court has ruled that California's nine-month-old sexually violent predator (SVP) law is constitutional.
  
• Blows Against The Empire: The Gribben Trial Susan Gribben had been charged with killing her four young children with prior calculation and design. Ms. Gribben had been born to an alcoholic mother and a father who became a convicted sex offender.
  
• Survivors of Clergy Abuse - Court Cases Summaries of published cases from April 1997 - October 1999, state by state and internationally.
  
• U.S. v. William Comicz William Comicz was sentenced to spend 27 months in federal prison for having seen and then deleted four pictures from the Internet.
  
• Court: Not All Kansas Sex Offenders Have To Disclose Whereabouts The Supreme Court refused to let Kansas publicly disclose the whereabouts of all sex offenders who are required to tell authorities whenever they move.
  
• Patterson v. State Of Alaska Opinion of the Court of Appeals No. A-6718, Trial Court No. 3KN-S96-409CR. The duty to register under ASORA does not violate the prohibition against ex post facto legislation.
  
• Court Rejects Challenge To Megan`s Law The Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to New Jersey`s Megan`s Law, which requires authorities to tell communities the whereabouts of convicted sex offenders.
  
• US Code : Title 18, Chapter 109A United States Code, Title 18 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure. Chapter 109A - Sexual Abuse.