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Due Process
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Today is the anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment
JURIST: Today in Legal History:On July 28, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, granting citizenship to former slaves and protecting due process of law and equal protection of laws in…
Drug & Device Law
Friday Frivolity – Are We All Excommunicated?
By Bexis
It's our blog - we're entitled.Being lawyers, we're also fans of the Magna Carta. That's where the concept of "due process of law" comes from, among lots of other things.…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Prolonged Solitary Confinement and the Constitution”
Main July 11, 2009"Prolonged Solitary Confinement and the Constitution"The title of this post is te title of this new piece by Jules Lobel now available via SSRN. Here is the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Letter to AG Holder on Due Process Protections for Mentally Disabled in Immigration Court
Brittney Nystrom, Senior Legal Advisor at the National Immigration Forum (www.immigrationforum.org) asked me to post this request:Immigrant and disabilities rights advocates are urging Attorney General Holder to revise regulations and policies to…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Osborne’s Deference to the States
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
The Supreme Court ruled this week in DA's Office v. Osborne that a state prisoner has no Fourteenth Amendment Due Process right to access the state's evidence for DNA testing, even where…
Mediating Certainty
SCOTUS Rules: Caperton v. A. T. Massey
By Keith Jones
The United States Supreme Court ruled today in Caperton v. A. T. Massey, No. 08-22, that the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution required that West Virginia Supreme…
West Virginia Business Litigation
SCOTUS Holds Due Proces Requires WV Supreme Court Justice’s Recusal
The Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion today in Caperton v. Massey and in a 5-4 decision held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment…
The Contingency
“Due Process Requires Recusal”, Supreme Court Holds
Justice Brent Benjamin refused to recuse. The U.S. Supreme Court split 5-4 today in favor of forcing a state supreme court justice to recuse himself from ruling on a case. Caperton…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Amnesty International Investigates Immigration Detainee Claims of Abuses, Lack of Due Process at Port Isabel Detention Center
Representatives from Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) will visit the Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, TX, on Tuesday and Wednesday to meet with Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Intriguing Third Circuit case on considering hearsay in supervised release revocation
Main May 27, 2009Intriguing Third Circuit case on considering hearsay in supervised release revocationThe Third Circuit has an intriguing little procedural ruling today in US v. Lloyd, No. 08-2513 (3d…