Central Savings Bank v. City of New York

In our opinion in this case we stated that under the statute property is “ taken without due process of law (State Const, art. 1, § 6) and,” etc. (279 N. Y. 266, 275). A statute repugnant to the due process clause of the State Constitution is repugnant also to the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The clauses are formulated in the same words and are intended for the protection of the same fundamental rights of the individual and there is, logically, no room for distinction in definition of the scope of the two clauses.

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