Bruce H. KING, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TOWN OF HANOVER, Defendant-Appellee

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• “An at-will employee has no reasonable expectation of continued employment. Whether an employment contract allows dismissal only for cause is a matter of state law.”
• “It is insufficient for [the plaintiff] to simply recount that he complained and that he was disciplined five months later. He must offer sufficient evidence of discrimination for a rational factfinder to find in his favor.”
• “[A] 2 Duplisea’s substantive due process claim is rooted in the deprivation of a property interest. See Complaint ¶ 72 (“[The City] deprived [Duplisea] of his property interest by illegally terminating him without substantive due process of law.”
• applying the McDonnell Douglas framework to Title VII claims

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