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This case challenges the registration requirement for those sex offenders who completed their sentence before the registry went into effect; the NH Supreme Court held that the law's retroactive, lifetime registration requirements were “punitive in effect” and therefore unconstitutional.

The ACLU-NH challenged the constitutionality of the Education Tax Credit Program program which gives businesses tax deductions in exchange for donations to scholarship organizations which pay for tuition at religious and other private schools; the schools can use those funds with no state oversight.

The Education Tax Credit Program allows businesses to reduce their tax liability by receiving an 85 percent tax credit in exchange for donations made to K-12 scholarship organizations which will pay for tuition at religious and other private schools.  Since there is no state oversight of the schools receiving funds, religious schools will be able to use the donations for religious instruction, indoctrination, and religiously-based discrimination.  The New Hampshire Constitution specifically provides that “no person shall ever be compelled to pay towards the support of the schools of any sect or denomination” and that “no money raised by taxation shall ever be granted or applied for the use of the schools or institutions of any religious sect or denomination.”  The Complaint challenging the constitutionality of this Program can be found here.