facts are at issue, adjudication is preferable since it is within a judge's expertise to resolve matters involving personal rights. Whereas, when there is a general grievance bearing on future policies, rulemaking is preferable because the expertise and familiarity of an agency within its field helps to inform them on such decisions. Here, the law of Colorado denied landowners post-deprivation hearings, the right to be heard after an assessment of taxes had been made. Thus, the right to a pre-deprivation hearing, allowing landowners to be heard prior to the assessment of taxes, was the only way in which the landowners could challenge the Government's actions depriving them of property. See also List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 210 External links 1908 in United States case law United States administrative case law United States civil due process case law United States Supreme Court cases United States Supreme Court cases of the Fuller Court United States taxation and revenue case law History of Denver Legal history of Colorado