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Constitutional Law

United States Supreme Court

Valparaiso University

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The Many Faces Of Iqbal, Rosalie Berger Levinson Jan 2011

The Many Faces Of Iqbal, Rosalie Berger Levinson

Law Faculty Publications

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Time To Bury The Shocks The Conscience Test, Rosalie Berger Levinson Jan 2010

Time To Bury The Shocks The Conscience Test, Rosalie Berger Levinson

Law Faculty Publications

The Supreme Court has acknowledged that "the Due Process Clause, like its forebear in the Magna Carta, was 'intended to secure the individual from the arbitrary exercise of the powers of government'...to prevent governmental power from being 'used for purposes of oppression.'"1 Historically, Magna Carta was aimed a·t limiting the power of the king. Today, substantive due process is invoked to challenge arbitrary deprivations of life, liberty, and property by officials, such as police officers, jail guards, public-school educators, public employers, and members of zoning boards. However, the Supreme Court has emasculated its efficacy as a limitation on executive …


Draining The Morass: Ending The Jurisprudentially Unsound Unpublication System, David R. Cleveland Jan 2009

Draining The Morass: Ending The Jurisprudentially Unsound Unpublication System, David R. Cleveland

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.