In Re Alva

How courts have described this case

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• holding, after the events at issue in this case, that misdemeanor sex offender registration is not cruel or unusual punishment because sex offender registration is not punishment
• describing California’s sex-offender registration statute as a “regulatory measure! ]” that is “designed to assist law enforcement and to protect the public”
• “We see no basis to find a different meaning of ‘punishment’ 12 for state purposes than would apply under the Eighth Amendment.”
• “[W]e conclude that California’s law requiring the mere registration of convicted sex offenders is not a punitive measure subject to either state of federal proscriptions against punishment that is ‘cruel’ and/or ‘unusual.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).