Substantive Due Process and Breed-Discriminatory Legislation

This lesson explores how the theory of substantive due process can be applied in the context of breed-discriminatory legislation (BDL), whether BDL is rationally related to public safety, and where science, the courts and governments presently come down on the matter.

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