State v. Oakley
Supreme Court of Wisconsin
629 N.W.2d 200 (2002)
David Oakley (defendant) was convicted of intentionally failing to pay child support for his nine children. Rather than imprison him, which would impair his ability to earn and pay support, the trial judge sentenced him to probation on the condition that he not father another child until he could show he could support both existing and future children, with an eight-year prison term as the consequence of violating that condition. Oakley appealed, arguing the condition amounted to a permanent bar on his fundamental right to procreate given how unlikely it was he'd ever meet the support threshold.
Whether it is constitutional for a trial court, upon convicting an offender of intentional failure to pay child support, to impose probation with the condition that the offender not procreate until and unless he proves capable of supporting his existing and future children.