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Instead, Plaintiff pled guilty to a crime-kidnapping of an unrelated minor under the age of 17-that automatically rendered him a sex offender under New York's Sex Offender Registration Act ("SORA"), N.Y. Yet the record before the Court does not indicate that Plaintiff has ever committed any sexual misconduct. Plaintiff was even reincarcerated for several months for possessing a smartphone and laptop. NATHAN, District Judge: Since 2016, Plaintiff has been required to register as a sex offender and has been subject to parole conditions designed to control the threat posed by sex offenders, including limitations on where he can live and travel, what websites he can access and what technology he can possess, and whether he can own a pet or rent a post office box. 103 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Equan Yunus, Sr., Plaintiff, l 7-cv-5839 (AJN) -vOPINION & ORDER J. Nathan on ) (cf) (Main Document 103 replaced on ) (tro). 15, by separate order Judge Moses may schedule a case management conference. As this matter has been referred to Magistrate Judge Moses for general pretrial, Dkt. (As further set forth in this Order.) This resolves docket numbers 43 and 59. The Court also grants Defendants' motion to dismiss as to several of Plaintiff's cla ims, including all of his claims for damages, while denying it as to his substantive due process claim, his challenges to his conditions of parole limiting where he can travel, his ability to seek alternate residences, his access to social media, what technology he can own and use, and his ability to interact with minor members of his family.


For the r easons given below, the Court adopts Judge Moses' recommendation and grants Plaintiff a preliminary injunction on his substantive due process claim. Court Description: OPINION & ORDER for 43 Motion for Preliminary Injunction filed by Equan Yunus, Sr., 79 Report and Recommendations 59 Motion to Dismiss filed by Granum, Smith, Yolanda Vazquez, J.
