215 W. Va. 88 - Haislop v. Edgell’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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1. “Additionally, we are not unmindful that the concurring opinion of Justices Souter and Ginsburg in Connecticut Department of Public Safety noted that they "agree with the observation that today's holding does not foreclose a claim that Connecticut's dissemination of registry information is actionable on a substantive due process principle[J” Id. 538 U.S. at 8, 123 S.Ct. at 1165, 155 L.Ed.2d at 106, and that "the Court's rejection of respondents' procedural due process claim does not immunize publication schemes like Connecticut's from an equal protection challenge.” Id. 538 U.S. at 10, 123 S.Ct. at 1166, 155 L.Ed.2d at 107.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 216 W. Va. 298 - Rohrbaugh v. State

2. “The question whether an Act is civil or punitive in nature is initially one of statutory construction. A court will reject the Legislature’s manifest intent only when a party challenging the Act provides the clearest proof that the statutory scheme is so punitive in either purpose or effect as to negate the Legislature’s intention.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 233 W. Va. 5 - State of West Virginia v. Kimberly S.

3. “agree with the observation that today's holding does not foreclose a claim that Connecticut's dissemination of registry information is actionable on a substantive due process principle[J” Id. 538 U.S. at 8, 123 S.Ct. at 1165, 155 L.Ed.2d at 106, and that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 216 W. Va. 298 - Rohrbaugh v. State