Eddie Post v. W.R. Harper, Also Known as Bud Harper, Individually and in His Official Capacity as County Judge Sebastian County, Arkansas

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• concluding that, “[a]s a county employee, Post is not similarly situated, either in fact or in contemplation of law, to elected public officials or to municipal employees”
• finding that the plaintiff had a liberty interest at risk, because he was terminated for “alleged gambling activity,” which the court concluded was enough that “his good name, reputation, honor, or integrity is at stake because of what the government is doing to him”
• although employer not required to tell employee that hearing is pretermination hearing, employee needs to know that job is in jeopardy
• the persons identified for comparison must be “similarly situated” both “in fact” and “in contemplation of law”
• although employer not required to tell employee that hearing is pretermination hearing, employee needs to know that job is in jeopardy
• where the persons identified for comparison are “not similarly situated, either in fact or in contemplation of law,” the plaintiffs disparate treatment claim cannot be sustained

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).