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AirTalk

Is Preemptive Legal Action Legal?

By AirTalk Staff
Published Aug 15, 2007

Self-proclaimed pedophile Jack McClellan has yet to be accused of an act of pedophilia, yet he's been placed under a restraining order, and has now been arrested twice for violating it. Does the U.S. constitution allow for preemptive legal action? Larry Mantle talks with Loyola Law School Professor Laurie Levenson and Richard Patterson, one of the attorneys who sought the restraining order on McClellan.