Amaury Rodriguez v. United States

In Packingham v. North Carolina, 582 U.S. 98 (2017), the Court held that a North Carolina statute prohibiting registered sex offenders from accessing social media websites was unconstitutional. In so holding, the Court recognized that the First Amendment protected the right to access the internet for defendants who had completed their sentences. Over the past decade, the lower courts have divided over whether Packingham is limited to internet restrictions imposed on defendants who have fully completed their sentences, or whether Packingham also governs internet restrictions imposed on defendants as a condition of their post-release supervision. The question presented is: Whether this Court’s decision in Packingham v. North Carolina, 582 U.S. 98 (2017) governs internet restrictions imposed as a condition of supervised release.