Beyond the technical procedural details, the due process and public policy questions surrounding civil asset forfeiture are important.
They vigorously denounce rulings that use ambiguous, open-ended constitutional standards such as equal protection and due process to do their policy work.
This time, it would behoove Harvard administrators to include meaningful protections for accused students and consult in advance with those who might identify due process problems before the policy goes live.
Yet policy and due process have become foolishly interwoven.
But political decisions — about war, due process, and, yes, health-care policy — most certainly do.
His attorney, Gadeir Abbas, of the Council on American-Islamic Relationsaidaid the watch list policy violates due process rights guaranteed by the US Constitution.
A group of student activists and sexual assault victims called Our Harvard Can Do Better said in a statement that the law professors' complaint that the school's sexual assault policy lacks due process protections for accused students shows "a callous lack of understanding of sexual violence and its effect on survivors in educational institutions".
Mr. Corn-Revere accused the F.C.C. of violating due process by abandoning its 30-year policy of cautious enforcement of decency rules and substituting instead a zero-tolerance policy, which he said the F.C.C. had applied retroactively to the incident.
"Today's court argument is about law and due process, it is not about foreign policy or politics," said Eliot Lauer, another of Mr. Pollard's lawyers.
The exception was Alabama, which unanimously adopted a law in 2012 to prevent any future effort to "deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy recommendations originating in, or traceable to 'Agenda 21'Agenda
