The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived ...

Civil procedure students are used to hearing about the rules for state-court personal jurisdiction under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. But the Fifth Amendment has a Due Process Clause ...

Editor's note: This story was written in June of 2018. It took a while for the 14th Amendment to live up to its promise of guaranteeing all Americans equal rights under the law. But, nearly 90 years ...

This anniversary provides an opportunity for us to reacquaint ourselves with their history and to recommit ourselves to the work of ensuring their enforcement. On July 9, 1868, South Carolina became ...

When this country was founded, women had no rights. As late as 2010, then-Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in an interview that women still don’t. It wasn’t until 1971 that the court ruled ...

The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution states in part, quote, No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of the law. One of the founding principles of the United ...