Donald Boyanowski v. Capital Area Intermediate Unit

How courts have described this case

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• holding that harms to a plaintiff’s future employment that flow from statements made by a former employer do not infringe upon a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause
• predicting that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would not sustain a civil conspiracy claim absent a substantive underlying claim
• applying the \shocks the conscience\ test to a claim of civil conspiracy
• explaining the “rule that [a] civil conspiracy may not exist without an underlying tort”
• applying the \shocks the conscience\ test to a claim of civil conspiracy
• noting the general rule that “civil conspiracy may not exist without an underlying tort is a common one” and noting it was unaware of any jurisdiction that recognized a civil conspiracy claim without separate tortious conduct.

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