Carr v. United States

Carr v. United States
Decided June 1, 2010
Full case nameCarr v. United States
Citations560 U.S. 438 (more)
Holding
SORNA, which criminalizes interstate travel for sex offenders who do not register as a sex offender in the other state, does not apply to sex offenders whose interstate travel occurred before SORNA's effective date.
Court membership
Chief Justice
John Roberts
Associate Justices
John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia
Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor
Case opinions
MajoritySotomayor, joined by Roberts, Stevens, Kennedy, Breyer; Scalia (except Part III-C)
ConcurrenceScalia (in part)
DissentAlito, joined by Thomas, Ginsburg
Laws applied
Ex Post Facto Clause

Carr v. United States, 560 U.S. 438 (2010), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, which criminalizes interstate travel for sex offenders who do not register as a sex offender in the other state, does not apply to sex offenders whose interstate travel occurred before SORNA's effective date.