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INTERNAL PROTOTYPE — NOT LEGAL ADVICE — DO NOT SEND

Lindsey v. Normet, 405 U.S. 56 (1972)

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Lindsey v. Normet, 405 U.S. 56 (1972)
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Lindsey v. Normet, 405 U.S. 56 (1972)

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But where the right is so fundamental as the tenant's claim to his home, the requirements of due process should be more embracing. In the setting of modern urban life, the home, even though it be in the slums, is where man's roots are. To put him into the street when the slum landlord, not the slum tenant, is the real culprit deprives the tenant of a fundamental right without any real opportunity to defend. Then he loses the essence of the controversy, being given only empty promises that somehow, somewhere, someone may allow him to litigate the basic question in the case. 63