Becky Roberts v. United States

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• stating that a military record correction board may meet its obligation to provide “reasoned explanation” by referring “to the reasoning of an advisory opinion”
• explaining that this first element is “essential,” because procedural due process exists “to protect a substantive interest to which the individual has a legitimate claim of entitlement” (quoting Olim v. Wakinekona, 461 U.S. 238, 250 (1983))
• noting that the BCNR is obliged to provide a reasoned explanation for its decision but finding that the BCNR can meet that obligation by referring the reader to relevant sources such as the advisory opinions it receives
• noting that the BCNR is obliged to provide a reasoned explanation for its decision but finding that the BCNR can meet that obligation by referring the reader to relevant sources such as the advisory opinions it receives
• rejecting plaintiff’ s argument that she had a “property interest in a fair evaluation process,” because a fair evaluation process’ .is still a process, not a substantive interest in liberty or property”
• dismissing due process claims of plaintiff who had alleged that “she ha[d] a ‘liberty and property interest in a fair evaluation process’ ” because “a ‘fair evaluation process’ is still a process, not a substantive interest in liberty or property”

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