Benavidez v. City of Albuquerque

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• concluding that the pretermination procedures afforded in that case “tipp[ed] the balance” in favor of a determination that the discharged employees’ due process rights were not violated when they were required to bear the burden of proof in post-termination proceedings
• switching burden to employee in post-termination proceeding was not a due process violation given prior pre-termination proceedings
• analyzing whether placing the burden of proof on employees in post-termination administrative hearings violated the Fourteenth Amendment and applying the test found in Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319 (1976)

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