Legal Opinion
Doe v. Nebraska
District Court, D. Nebraska
Decided October 17, 2012No. Nos. 8:09CV456, 4:10CV3266, 4:10CV3005PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
RICHARD G. KOPF, Senior District Judge.
Earlier I paraphrased Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and observed that if the people of Nebraska wanted to go to hell, it was my job to help them get there.1 By that, I meant that it is not my prerogative to second-guess Nebraska’s policy judgments so long as those judgments are within constitutional parameters. Accord*1093ingly, I upheld many portions of Nebraska’s new sex offender registration laws even though it was my firm personal view that those laws were both wrongheaded and counterproductive.
2Cases cited57 opinions
- United States v. SalernoSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Broadrick v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982
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3Cited by11 opinions
- John Doe v. Kamala HarrisCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2014
- Coppolino v. NoonanCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2014
- People v. MinnisIllinois Supreme Court · 2017
- State of Iowa v. Lloyd AschbrennerSupreme Court of Iowa · 2019
- McGuire v. StrangeDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2015
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