State v. Germane

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “[t]he United States Supreme Court has recognized that * * * fundamental rights include those guaranteed by the Bill of Rights as well as certain liberty and privacy interests implicit in the due process clause and in the penumbra of constitutional rights”
• adopting the federal definition of fundamental rights in evaluating a claim that the Sexual Offender Registration and Community Notification Act violated the Due Process Clauses of both the Rhode Island and United States constitutions
• “The due process clause of the federal constitution (and the parallel provision of our state constitution) ‘provides heightened protection against government interference with certain fundamental rights and liberty interests.’”
• separation of powers doctrine prohibits “unwarranted legislative invasion of the judicial power”
• “This Court is similarly reluctant to recognize heretofore unarticulated fundamental rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).