MEMORANDUM ORDER
D. BROOKS SMITH, District Judge.
Before the Court are defendants' motions to dismiss plaintiffs' complaint for want of subject-matter jurisdiction and for failure to state a claim. They require us to survey the state of the law under the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, applied to claims for deprivation of life without due process under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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