No. 21-7365

Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al.

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit

Docketed: 2022-03-15

Status: Denied

Type: IFP

Response WaivedIFP

Tags: age-of-consent child-marriage civil-rights criminal-registration due-process equal-protection florida-law sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape

Latest Conference: 2022-05-12

Question Presented (from Petition)

1) How does the State of Florida condone conviction, incarceration, and registration of adults for engaging in consensual sex with minors when at the same time it shields certain adults from those same or worse acts under its Child Marriage Laws?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the State of Florida's laws that criminalize consensual sex between adults and minors while shielding certain adults from the same or worse acts under its Child Marriage Laws violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

Docket Entries

2022-05-16

Petition DENIED.

2022-04-21

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/12/2022.

2022-04-14

Waiver of right of respondent Florida to respond filed.

Main Document

2022-03-07

Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 14, 2022)

Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis Petition Appendix Proof of Service

Attorneys

Florida

Carla Suzanne Bechard — Office of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent

Louis M. Clements

Louis Matthew Clements — Petitioner