Hayward v. Ramick’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Corley, supra, stands alone among a number of opinions dealing with the constitutionality of parental responsibility statutes in various jurisdictions. The other statutes have uniformly been upheld. See, Vanthournout v. Burge, 69 Ill. App.3d 193 , 25 Ill.Dec. 685 , 387 N.E.2d 341 (1979) and cases cited therein. Some courts have accepted the distinction this court found in our previous statute, Rudnay v. Corbett, 53 Ohio App.2d 311 , 374 N.E.2d 171 , and others have not. In re Sorrell, 20 Md. App. 179 , 315 A.2d 110, 115 (1974). While we do not reaffirm Corley , we do hold that the legislature has met the objections to Corley in the new statute with which we now deal. Setting aside the history of our statute and prior decisions for the moment, we will undertake to analyze Code Ann. 105-113 under the recognized due process approach. Substantive due process requires that the statute not be unreasonable, arbitrary or capricious, and that the means have a real and substantial relation to the object sought to be obtained. Nebbia v. New York, 291 U.S. 502, 525 , 54 S.Ct. 505, 510-511 , 78 L.Ed. 940 (1933). The law must rationally relate to a legitimate end of government. Nowak, et al., Constitutional Law, p. 410 (1978). No basis has been put forward for any higher scrutiny and we find none. We hold that this statute, intended to aid in reducing juvenile delinquency by imposing liability upon parents who control minors is neither unreasonable, arbitrary nor capricious. We further hol”

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   e.g. 415 So. 2d 123 - Stang v. Waller