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PAUL P. v. FARMER

No. 00-5244.

227 F.3d 98 (2000)

PAUL P, (a minor, by Laura L, his legal guardian); Quincy Q; Ronald R; Steven S, (a minor, by Sally S, his legal guardian), (all fictitious names), Individually and as Representatives of a class pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(a) and 23(b)(2) v. John J. FARMER, Jr., Attorney General New Jersey; Jeffrey S. Blitz, Atlantic County Prosecutor; William Schmidt, Bergen County Prosecutor; Robert D. Bernardi, Burlington County Prosecutor; Lee A. Solomon, Acting Camden County Prosecutor; David E. Blake, Cape May County Prosecutor; Arthur Marchand, Cumberland County Prosecutor; Donald C. Campolo, Essex County Prosecutor; Andrew Yurick, Gloucester County Prosecutor; Fred J. Theemling, Jr., Hudson County Prosecutor; Stephen B. Rubin, Hunterdon County Prosecutor; Daniel G. Giaquinto, Mercer County Prosecutor; Glenn E. Berman, Middlesex County Prosecutor; John Kaye, Monmouth County Prosecutor; John B. Dangler, Morris County Prosecutor; E. David Millard, Ocean County Prosecutor; Ronald S. Fava, Passaic County Prosecutor; John E. Bergh, Salem County Prosecutor; Wayne W. Forrest, Somerset County Prosecutor; Dolores M. Blackburn, Sussex County Prosecutor; Thomas V. Manahan, Union County Prosecutor; John G. Laky, Warren County Prosecutor, Paul P. and Ronald R., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed September 11, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward L. Barocas, (Argued), Michael Z. Buncher, Office of Public Defender, Richard J. Hughes, Trenton, NJ, Attorneys for Appellants.

John J. Farmer, Jr., (Argued), Rhonda S. Berliner-Gold, B. Stephan Finkel, Office of Attorney General of New Jersey, Richard J. Hughes, Trenton, NJ, Steven S. Sand, Office of Prosecutor of Gloucester County, Woodbury, NJ, Maureen O'Brien, Office of Prosecutor of Union County County, Elizabeth, NJ, Attorneys for Appellees.

Robert J. Cleary, United States Attorney, George S. Leone, Assistant United States Attorney (Argued), Newark, NJ, David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Leonard Schaitman and Lowell Sturgill, Attorneys, Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, Attorneys for United States as Amicus-Curiae Supporting Appellees.

Before: BARRY and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges, and OBERDORFER, District Judge.

OPINION OF THE COURT

BARRY, Circuit Judge.

For several years now, the District Court and this Court have been adjudicating appellants' various challenges to the dissemination of sex offender notices in New Jersey under what has popularly become known as "Megan's Law." As to one of those challenges, and alone among the Courts of Appeals which have considered Megan's Law cases, we found that sex offender notices implicate a nontrivial privacy interest, albeit...

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