Enterprise Fire Fighters' Ass'n v. Watson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employee had no substantive right to continued employment and sustaining a decision at the administrative-appeals level to uphold the employee's dismissal
• holding that an employee had no substantive right to continued employment and sustaining a decision at the administrative-appeals level to uphold the employee's dismissal
• finding that firefighter’s procedural due process rights were violated when he was terminated without being afforded pretermination hearing
• awarding back pay because the Eleventh Amendment does not protect municipalities, only states
• “[W]hen the violation of due process is the failure to provide a pretermination hearing, the violation cannot be cured subsequent to termination.”
• “[W]hen the violation of due process is the failure to provide a pretermination hearing, the violation cannot be cured subsequent to termination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).