Due process safeguards citizens by enforcing fair governmental actions. Procedural due process ensures correct application of laws; substantive due process checks law constitutionality. Due process is ...

As Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter put it: "The history of American freedom is, in no small measure, the history of procedure." The scale of threats to due process, however, has greatly ...

Procedural due process ensures that the government follows fair methods, while substantive due process examines the content of government action itself, forbidding certain governmental intrusions ...

The McIntoshes own a mobile home park in Madisonville, Kentucky. After a tenant complained, the city found mold and mildew in one of the homes, condemned it, and ordered it demolished. The McIntoshes ...

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the ...