Deconstructing The Jane Doe Due Process Decision
Posted: June 16, 2015 Filed under: Appellate Law | Tags: due process, jane doe Leave a commentThe Jane Doe case is back in the news. Jane Doe is the transgender teen who, at the request of the Department of Children and Families (DCF), was transferred temporarily to the York Correctional Institution for Women in Niantic because of her history of physical violence towards other girls and DCF staff.
The Rule Of Law In Colonial Connecticut
Posted: December 30, 2012 Filed under: General Law, Legal History | Tags: code of 1650, due process, fundamental orders, magna carta, roger ludlow Leave a commentWhat, if anything, do Connecticut’s earliest legal documents have to say about the rule of law and its relationship to an orderly society? Let’s start with a document known as the Fundamental Orders, adopted on January 14, 1639 (or perhaps 1638 according to some sources). The phrase “Constitution State,” which we see so often on the license plate of the car in front of us, is based on the notion–accepted by some, disputed by others–that the Fundamental Orders represent the first written constitution in the western world. The Orders (of which there were eleven) established a formal confederation among the towns of Windsor, Wethersfield and Hartford and set forth a form of government. However, it is the introductory paragraph, a preamble of sorts, that explains why a government is desired: Read the rest of this entry »
