By: Derek Hawkins//January 30, 2018//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: Anthony Johnson v. Lisa Madigan, et al.
Case No.: 16-3189
Officials: MANION and KANNE, Circuit Judges, and MILLER, District Judge.
Focus: Failure to State Claim
A felony conviction for stealing $12 worth of meat branded Anthony Johnson a “sexual predator” under Illinois law and subjected him to burdens and responsibilities he didn’t have before that conviction. He filed suit contending that the United States Constitution’s ex post facto clause makes at least some of those burdens and responsibilities unconstitutional. The district court dismissed Mr. Johnson’s complaint for failure to state a claim on which relief could be granted. Mr. Johnson appeals. We affirm, after first reviewing the appellee’s challenge to Mr. Johnson’s standing to pursue this case after moving to Wisconsin.
Affirmed