Due Process

"Due process means that no person can be subject to an individualized proceeding in which he or she stands to lose one of the protected interests – in the context of administrative law, either property or liberty – without sufficient procedures to ensure that the governmental action is fundamentally fair."


The US Constitution guarantees that no person shall be deprived of Life, Liberty, or property, without due process of Law. This concept places an important obligation upon every branch of government.


Walter Burgwyn Jones (October 16, 1888 - August 1, 1963) was a judge from Alabama. Jones served in the Alabama state legislature from 1919 to 1920. He was then a circuit court judge until 1935. Jones was a presiding judge from 1935 to 1963. In the 1956 Presidential election, faithless elector W. F. Turner cast his vote for Jones, who was a circuit court judge in Turner's home town, for President of the United States and Herman E. Talmadge for Vice President, … Jones wrote the book Alabama Loss Due to Reconstruction. He wrote a book on pleadings (In which he overruled in one of his cases) that Embry used in an important case.

T. Eric Embry was a trial lawyer represented the New York Times in NY Times Company v. Sullivan.