Legal Opinion
Claudio Tundo v. County of Passaic
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 2, 2019No. 18-1460PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIBAS, Circuit Judge.
A chance at a job is not a right to it. When the government has broad discretion to take a benefit away from its employees, that benefit is not a constitutionally protected property interest. New Jersey's Civil Service Commission offered Claudio Tundo and Ruben Gilgorri such a benefit. After they were laid off from their jobs as corrections officers, the Commission put them on its rehire lists so they could be considered for rehiring. But it had broad discretion to take them off those lists, and it later did.
Tundo and Gilgorri reasonably expected that they would stay on…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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