postdeprivation en · ADJ
Etymology
From post- + deprivation.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) After a period of deprivation.
Taken together, the decisions indicate that for deprivations worked by such random and unauthorized departures from otherwise unimpugned and established state procedures the State provides the process due by making available adequate postdeprivation remedies.
1989, Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas v. New Mexico: