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due process
(redirected from Procedural due process)

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due process noun due process of law, legal fairness, legal safeguards, protection against deprivations, proteccion guarantees, protection of deprivation of accepted legal principlesGenerally: fundamental fairnessSpecifically: Fifth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment
Associated concepts: procedural due process, right to connront accuser, substantive due process


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He believes in a class action procedure, he says, but it must serve its function without overwhelming the normative and constitutional commitments in the US to democratic accountability, separation of powers, procedural due process, or individual autonomy.
Procedural due process has long been thought to involve a balancing of competing interests: the value of providing a given procedure is balanced against the cost, either to the state or to one of the parties, of providing it.
Patterson provided the superintendent, as a nontenured employee, with all the procedural due process the Constitution required.
 
 
 
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