abstract:In United States constitutional law, substantive due process (SDP) is a principle which allows federal courts to protect certain fundamental rights from government interference under the authority of the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, which prohibit the federal and state governments, respectively, from depriving any person of "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."U.
The CDA has most frequently been used as a defense against claims of defamation, but the broad immunity provided by the mighty CDA has also barred claims of false information, negligence, gross negligence, misrepresentation, invasion of privacy, misappropriation, fraud, breach of contract, unfair competition, emotional distress, nuisance, tortious interference with business relations, tortious interference with business expectancy, violation of civil rights, money laundering, threats, discriminatory statements, waste of public funds, nuisance, premises liability and denial of substantivedueprocess.