Pacific Legal Foundation is disappointed to report that the U.S. Supreme Court will not hear Kentner v. City of Sanibel, a PLF case that asked whether constitutional due process guarantees apply to private property. Although the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due proc ...
The Fourteenth Amendment's mandate that local governments shall not "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" is probably one of the best-known provisions of the U.S. Constitution. That guarantee is fundamental to our concept of ordered liberty, and is plainly written and easily understood. Why, then, did the El ...