Brennan v. Town of Colchester

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• holding that planning commission members did not have property interest in serving entire term where statute stated commissioners could be removed “at any time”
• considering as initial step nature of claimed interest to determine if it is within scope of Fourteenth Amendment’s protection of liberty and property
• if legislature’s intent can be derived from plain meaning of the words, further statutory construction is unnecessary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).