Nichols v. United States

Nichols v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 1, 2016 Decided April 4, 2016
Full case name	Lester Ray Nichols, Petitioner v. United States
Docket no.	15-5238
Citations	578 U.S. ___ (more) 136 S. Ct. 1113; 194 L. Ed. 2d 324
Case history
Prior	United States v. Nichols, 775 F.3d 1225 (10th Cir. 2014); rehearing en banc denied, 784 F.3d 666 (10th Cir. 2015); cert. granted, 136 S. Ct. 445 (2015).
Holding
The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act does not require an individual to update his registration once departing a state.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan
Case opinion
Majority	Alito, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act

Nichols v. United States, 578 U.S. ___ (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) does not require an individual to update his registration after departing a state.^[1]