Jerome McKinney v. University of Pittsburgh

KRAUSE, Circuit Judge.

Jerome McKinney, a longtime, tenured professor at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, challenges the University's decision to reduce his salary as a violation of the Due Process Clause. Based largely on the negative implications that can be drawn from a University policy that discusses salary increases but nowhere mentions salary decreases, McKinney argues that he has a property interest in the continued receipt of his base salary and that he was deprived of that interest without due process. The District Court agreed,…