Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Blankenship v. Parke Care Centers, Inc.
118 S. Ct. 1039
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1998-02-23
- Topic
- general
holding that New Jersey's Megan's Law, which established sexual offender registration and community notification provisions, was nonpunitive and did not violate the double jeopardy or ex post facto clauses | noting that the “act of discrimination by the employer in such a case is not the harassment, but rather the inappropriate response to the charges of harassment” | describing sex offender registration and community notification components of New Jersey’s Megan’s Law scheme | action implemented by employer held to be “prompt and appropriate” where “[gjiven the circumstances before it, there was little else, if anything it could do” | New Jersey's law, which provides a tier process of imposing restrictions, was found not to violate the Ex Post Facto Clause | New Jersey’s law, which provides a tier process of imposing restrictions, was found not to violate the Ex Post Facto Clause
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C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied.