Legal Update: SORR Challenge
Many have been asking about the status of the SORR (Sex Offender Residency Restriction) Challenge which was recently reversed (in our favor) in the 11th Circuit (Federal Appellate Court).
Trial in this case is scheduled for the two-week period commencing Monday, March 19, 2018.
Although that seems a while away and you may be thinking “why so long?”, if you consider the scheduling order set by Judge Huck, you will hopefully appreciate all that needs to happen in this case until then.
170 days – Motions to join additional parties, amend pleadings, and for class certification must be filed.
140 days – Plaintiffs shall furnish opposing counsel with a written list containing the names and addresses of all expert witnesses intended to be called at trial. Only those expert witnesses identified by name shall be permitted to testify.
130 days – Plaintiffs shall furnish opposing counsel with a written report from each expert intended to be called at trial. Within the fourteen (14) day period following service of each expert’s written report, Plaintiff shall make its experts available for deposition by opposing counsel. The experts’ depositions may be conducted without further order from the Court.
130 days – Parties shall furnish opposing counsel with a written list containing the names and addresses of all witnesses intended to be called at trial. Only those witnesses identified by specific name or title (not by category or adoption by reference) shall be permitted to testify.
120 days – Defendant shall furnish opposing counsel with a written list containing the names and addresses of all expert witnesses intended to be called at trial. Only those expert witnesses identified by name shall be permitted to testify.
110 days – Defendant shall furnish opposing counsel with a written report from each expert intended to be called at trial. Within the fourteen(14) day period following service of each expert’s written report, Defendant shall make its experts available for deposition by opposing counsel. The experts’ depositions may be conducted without further order from the Court.
100 days – If Plaintiffs did not initially disclose experts but Defendant elects to utilize experts and discloses them, then Plaintiffs shall furnish opposing counsel with a written list containing the names and addresses of any rebuttal expert witnesses intended to be called at trial. Only those rebuttal expert witnesses identified by name shall be permitted to testify.
90 days – Plaintiffs shall furnish opposing counsel with a written report from each rebuttal expert intended to be called at trial. Within the fourteen (14) day period following service of each expert’s report, Plaintiff shall make the expert available for deposition by Defendant. The experts’ depositions may be conducted without further order from the Court.
75 days – All summary judgment and other dispositive motions must be filed.
55 days – All discovery must be completed.
40 days – All motions in limine and other pretrial motions must be filed.
10 days – Joint Pretrial Stipulation must be filed.
7 days – Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law must be filed.
This wait until March is better than nothing happening at all. This wasn’t the case in the last few years. Things are moving here in Florida, other Federal jurisdictions and even in the Supreme court. We have never had this type of ball roll before, so this is most welcoming. Thank you for all your efforts and support.
Thank you FAC for your tireless efforts on our behalf.
I sent you folks an e-mail asking about joining the case as a person convicted between 1997-2004 for who residency restrictions were a statutorily mandated special condition of probation. Any interest of should just plead on my own? Time is getting short. It looks like I have less tan a month to get in.
Plaintiffs are currently those homeless at the railroad tracks.
If you have a fact pattern that you think might fit – write to legal@floridaactioncommittee.org.
Well, i don’t currently reside on the tracks or under a bridge, but I did send an e-mail. i was thinking that any blow to these laws a good thing as they impact people other than recent parolees. The problem that I see with newer post 2005 registrants is that the Miami-Dade law is essentially “in compliance” with the state law that impacts those folks, but the county appears to have gone beyond that and imposed their local restrictions on people who’re not and can not be subjected to the underlying state restrictions. I may be wrong, but the way I read the ordinance it applies to ANYONE who was not already residing in their “non-compliant” home prior to 2005.
This is fantastic I know its taking a long time BUT it may be finely over for those guys. THANK YOU FAC!!!!!!! Ronnie you are the the best and I appreciate the outstanding work you done. You have a heart of GOLD again THANK YOU…… I can leave in peace knowing your there…..
Yes FAC is doing so much I lose track! Thanks you! Is this the case concerning Miami-Dade?
Yes, Miami-Dade.
I know “tiny steps”, but any word on the ex post facto challenge?