At some point, most Americans have had exposure to the Constitutional concept known as due process. It is referenced in both the fifth and fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The respective texts are as follows: Fifth Amendment: “[Nor] shall any person... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...” This …
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Pokemon Go and Private Property
Since the release of the smartphone game, "Pokemon Go" in early July, it is not unusual to see people, often traveling in packs, walking around the city, going to places that previously had little traffic. The Pokemon Go craze has people getting exercise and meeting new people as they crisscross the city looking for the little animated Pokemon …
Anne Linton Pond Hendrickson: South Carolina Summers
I can't remember a summer when I didn’t spend time on Pawley's Island, SC growing up. Every summer my parents would load my sister, brother and me into whatever station wagon we had at the time and away we would go - from East Tennessee through the North Carolina mountains to a small town in South Carolina, Bishopville, where my mom had grown up …
Explore Kansas City’s Rich History: Law Firm Looks Back to the City’s Forgotten Harlem
Did you know there is a Harlem right here in River City? In fact, at one point this fifty-acre town was a thriving area where nearly 600 people lived on the north bank of the Missouri River, right by Wheeler Downtown Airport. Named after the same Dutch town as its more famous counterpart in New York City, it was originally a cluster of log …
Kansas City Business Lawyer Elizabeth Patterson Explains Family Foundations
Family Foundations are private foundations which are nongovernmental, nonprofit organizations usually funded from a single source, such as an individual, family or corporation. Generally, private foundations are established to aid social, educational, religious or other charitable activities through grant making. They are tax-exempt under Section …
Kansas City Law Firm Breaks Down the Fifth Amendment: Understanding Private Property and Your Rights
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has so much meaningful content that it cannot be addressed in just one treatment or even two. In this article we will deal with the part of the amendment that says “…private property [shall not] be taken for public use, without just compensation”. That sounds simple enough, but when you drill down a …