Bratt v. County of Los Angeles

How courts have described this case

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• holding that § 1983 award should “include a full award of back pay only when there is a finding that the discharge would not have occurred if the employee’s procedural due process rights had been observed”
• “The complained-of constitutional violation is the denial of procedural due process, not the plaintiff’s discharge from public employment.”
• “If the District Court finds that [plaintiff] would have been fired even if procedural due process had been observed, then he is not entitled to an award of back pay except for a limited award based on the earliest date he could have been fired if Loudemiill procedures had been followed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).