Fifth Circuit· 2/10/2016
Jordan v. Fisher
Citations
- 823 F.3d 805
- 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 11734
- 2016 WL 3512637
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- stating: “The guarantee of due process enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment has two components—(1) a guarantee of procedural protections when a state seeks to deprive an individual of protected liberty or property interests, and (2
- due process clause “provides substantive … protections … when ‘the behavior of the governmental officer … may fairly be said to shock the contemporary conscience.’”
- “Plaintiffs’ claims seeking enforcement of [a state statute] may only proceed in federal court if a provision of federal law or the United States Constitution creates a right to the enforcement of [the statute].”
- “The three-drug protocol and the particular drugs Mississippi proposes to use (midazolam, a paralytic, and potassium chloride) are typical for those states that use lethal injection and were recently upheld in the face of a constitutional challenge.”
- discussing Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause
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Judges: Elrod, Higginbotham, Owen
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