Gloria Johnson v. The Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

The appellants, fifteen former employees of the Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center (Southwest), a community hospital organized and operated under state law, brought this action against the hospital claiming that Southwest had terminated their employment without due process of law. The district court held that the employees had no property interest in their jobs and granted a summary judgment for Southwest. We affirm.

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires notice and a hearing before termination from public employment only if such…