Connecticut v. Doehr

Connecticut v. Doehr
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 7, 1991 Decided June 6, 1991
Full case name	Connecticut v. Brian K. Doehr
Citations	501 U.S. 1 (more) 111 S. Ct. 2105; 115 L. Ed. 2d 1; 1991 U.S. LEXIS 3317
Case history
Prior	Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Holding
A state law authorizing the prejudgment attachment of a defendant's real property at the outset of a lawsuit without notice to the defendant or a hearing or any showing of extraordinary circumstances violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · John P. Stevens Sandra Day O'Connor · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter
Case opinions
Majority	White, joined by unanimous (Parts I, III); Rehnquist, Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter (Part II)
Plurality	White, joined by Marshall, Stevens, O'Connor (Parts IV, V)
Concurrence	Rehnquist, joined by Blackmun
Concurrence	Scalia
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

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Connecticut v. Doehr, 501 U.S. 1 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a state statute authorizing prejudgment attachment of a defendant's real property upon the filing of an action without prior notice or hearing, a showing of extraordinary circumstances, or a requirement that the plaintiff post a bond violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.