Legal Opinion
Williams v. Ballard
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 28, 2006No. 04-11310PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Per curiam
Texas state prisoner Willie Williams, proceeding pro se, filed this § 1983 action against various state officials having authority over the parole system, seeking damages and injunctive relief related to defendants’ imposition, without procedural due process, 1 as a condition of parole that he register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA), Tex.Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 62.001, et seq. (Vernon Supp.2006), and receive sex-offender therapy, 2 even though he was never convicted of a sex offense. 3 The district court 4 concluded that defendants violated Williams’s…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Hope v. PelzerSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Vitek v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Leslie Wayne Yohey v. James A. Collins, Director Department of Criminal Justice Institutional DivisionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1993
- Genus D. Ulmer v. George Chancellor, Sheriff, and Jones County Board of SupervisorsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
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3Cited by36 opinions
- Morgan v. SwansonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2011
- EX Parte EvansCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2011
- Ruffins v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICESDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 2010
- Linda Borden v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2013
- Booth v. Galveston Cnty.District Court, S.D. Texas · 2019
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