Legal Opinion
McKinney v. Pate
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 5, 1994No. 91-3416PublishedCited by 666 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Chief Judge:
This case presents the following issue: whether, under the Fourteenth Amendment, a government employee possessing a state-created .property interest in his employment states a substantive due process claim, rather than a procedural due process claim, when he alleges that he was deprived of that employment interest by an arbitrary and capricious non-legislative government action. For ten years, as a panel of this court noted in this case,1 the law of this circuit has been that an employee alleging such a termination states a substantive due process claim. This circuit’s…
2Cases cited47 opinions
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