West Point Pepperell, Inc. v. State Department of Revenue

How courts have described this case

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• holding that \the natural father must have established a substantial relationship with the child to merit constitutional protection\
• rejecting equal protection and due process challenges to paternity registry statute because putative father had notice of adoption proceedings and thus the constitutional argument did not apply to him
• relying on Lehr for the proposition that a biological father must have a 'substantial relationship' with a child in order to have a constitutional right to withhold consent to that child's adoption
• rejecting Equal Protection Clause challenge to the PFRA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).