The following excerpt is from Vasquez v. Van Lindt, 724 F.2d 321 (2nd Cir. 1983):
Procedural Due Process rules were meant to protect persons not from a deprivation, but from the mistaken or unjustified deprivation....
Carey v. Piphus, 435 U.S. 247, 259, 98 S.Ct. 1042, 1050, 55 L.Ed.2d 252 (1978).
Thus they impose constraints on government action. Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319, 332, 96 S.Ct. 893, 901, 47 L.Ed.2d 18 (1976).
Once notified of proposed governmental action, the interested party is entitled to be heard.
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