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The Supreme Court has issued numerous decisions clarifying the definition of due process with regard to the administrative state:

  • Murray's Lessee v. Hoboken Land & Improvement Co. (1855): The court held that due process of law meant the same thing as by the law of the land in Magna Carta and cited early state constitutions as evidence.
  • United States v. Ju Toy (1905): The court held that due process is when an executive or administrative officer acts within the powers given to them by Congress.
  • Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. (1940): The court held that procedure is the judicial process for enforcing rights and duties recognized by law and for justly administering remedy and redress when those rights and duties are violated.
  • Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Comm. v. McGrath (1951): Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote a concurring opinion that outlined several factors for courts to balance when deciding due process questions.
  • Murchinson (1955): The court held that a fair trial in a fair tribunal is a basic requirement of due process.
  • Griffin v. Illinois (1956): Justice Frankfurter argued in a concurring opinion that due process is “the least frozen concept of our law” and that it can absorb the progressive social standards of modern society.
  • Bartkus v. Illinois (1959): The court described decisions under the Due Process Clause as being based on an inquiry into the fundamental principles of society, which include a tribunal trained to make such decisions operating with safeguards for impartiality and detachment.
  • Keyishian v. Board of Regents (1967): The court rejected the right-privilege distinction approach to deciding due process cases.
  • Duncan v. Louisiana (1968): Justice John Harlan in a dissenting opinion described due process as fundamental fairness.
  • Mathews v. Eldridge (1976): The court introduced a balancing test to determine the level of due process required in a given situation.
  • Paul v. Davis (1976): The court ruled that the government’s interest in administrative efficiency has some weight in determining what process, if any, is due.


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