Young v. Weston

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• holding that the SVPS violates the substantive due process component of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Ex Post Facto Clause, and the Double Jeopardy Clause
• concluding a similar statute manifested a preoccupation with punishment, rendering it a penal law for double jeopardy and ex post facto purposes
• concluding a similar statute manifested a preoccupation with punishment, rendering it a penal law for double jeopardy and ex post facto purposes
• using the same analysis of punitiveness for both ex post facto and double jeopardy purposes
• using the same analysis of punitiveness for both ex post facto and double jeopardy purposes
• applying the same presumption and stating the analysis of a law's civil or criminal status is identical for double jeopardy and ex post facto purposes

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