Good on Connecticut v. Doehr

In Good on Connecticut v. Doehr, 501 U.S. 1 , 111 S. Ct. 2105 (1991), the Supreme Court struck down a state statute that authorized prejudgment attachment of real estate without prior notice or hearing, even in the absence of extraordinary circumstances. 501 U.S. at 4, 111 S. Ct. at 2109. The Court found the statute failed to satisfy the Due Process Clause. Id. at 18, 111 S. Ct. at 2116. The Supreme Court explicitly rejected the notion that only complete, physical, or permanent deprivations of real property trigger due process scrutiny and stated that its cases show that even the temporary or partial impairments to property rights that attachments, liens, and similar encumbrances entail are sufficient to merit due process protection. Id. at 12, 111 S. Ct. at 2113.