Fontana v. COMMR. OF THE METRO. DISTRICT COMM.

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• “a provisional employee does not have a statutory basis for claiming a property interest in continued employment” (citing Stetson v. Bd. of Selectmen of Carlisle, 369 Mass. 755, 759-760 (1976))
• “A liberty interest arises where, as here, a public employee is discharged because of stigmatizing charges alleged by the employee to be false and which are disseminated to the public or are likely to be communicated to prospective employers.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).