Guatam Batra Michael Resch Nisar Shaikh v. Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska Graham B. Spanier Stanley R. Liberty

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• holding that for property interest to arise, a plaintiff must have more than \mere subjective expectancy\
• noting that equal protection claim need not allege violation of a fundamental or constitutional right, but may allege intentional discrimination for any illegitimate reason
• employer’s alleged failure to follow its procedural rules did not, without more, give rise to protected liberty interest
• “[T]he relevant prerequisite is unlawful discrimination, not whether plaintiff is part of a victimized class.”
• “[m]ost equal protection cases involve facial or as-applied challenges to legislative action” [emphasis added]
• respectively quoting Board of Regents v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 92 S.Ct. 2701, 2709 (1972) and Geddes v. Northwest Mo. State Univ., 49 F.3d 426, 429 (8th Cir.1995)

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