HART v. HILLSDALE COUNTY, MICHIGAN

Nos. 18-1305/18-1307.

973 F.3d 627 (2020)

Anthony HART, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HILLSDALE COUNTY, MICHIGAN, Kwinn Leva, Timothy Parker, and Christine Wahtola (18-1305); City of Hillsdale, Shelby Rathbun, and Todd Holtz (18-1307), Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: September 3, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Marcelyn A. Stepanski , ROSATI, SCHULTZ & JOPPICH, P.C., Farmington Hills, Michigan, for Appellants in 18-1305. Roger A. Smith , VANDEVEER GARZIA, P.C., Troy, Michigan, for Appellants in 18-1307. William H. Goodman , GOODMAN, HURWITZ & JAMES, P.C., Detroit, Michigan, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Marcelyn A. Stepanski , ROSATI, SCHULTZ & JOPPICH, P.C., Farmington Hills, Michigan, for Appellants in 18-1305. Roger A. Smith , Beth A. Andrews , VANDEVEER GARZIA, P.C., Troy, Michigan, for Appellants in 18-1307. William H. Goodman , Huwaida Arraf , Julie H. Hurwitz , GOODMAN, HURWITZ & JAMES, P.C., Detroit, Michigan, Steven T. Budaj , STEVEN T. BUDAJ, P.C., Detroit, Michigan, for Appellee.

STRANCH, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which COLE, C.J., joined. READLER, J. (pp. 646-55), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.


OPINION

In 2011, Michigan narrowed the crimes covered by the Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) making Anthony Hart no longer a "sex offender." Defendants required him to continue registering as one, and he did. In July 2013, he registered an incorrect address and, in January 2014, failed to update his...

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