Barbara M. Ryan and William O. Gillespie v. Illinois Department of Children and Family Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, where “the responsible DCFS officials had already decided to fire [the plaintiffs] and therefore the hearing would in reality be a phony opportunity to contest the charges,” the plaintiffs’ right to due process was violated
• affirming denial of supplemental jurisdiction on state law claim against several defendants when all federal claims against those defendants were dismissed, even though viable federal claims still existed against other defendants
• “DCFS . . . as an agency of the State of Illinois [is] entitled to immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.”
• “[I]t is well established that . . . a state agency . . . is [not] a ‘person’ for purposes of [Section] 1983.”
• “Ordinarily, when an employer offers a pretermination hearing and the employee fails to accept, the Loudermill right to such a hearing is waived.“
• “A plaintiff who can introduce evidence that the decision has already been made and any hearing would be a sham is entitled to go forward with a procedural due process claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).