Hunter v. Collins

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that employer’s scolding and threatening of plaintiff’s job was not an adverse employment action in retaliation context
• finding that nothing in California law 21 created a property interest in promotion for police officers
• noting that a substantive due process claim requires that a plaintiff, “as a threshold matter, show a government deprivation of life, liberty, or property”
• explaining that, under California law, police 23 officer plaintiffs did not have property interest in promotions
• concluding expectancy of promotion not tantamount to entitlement given contingencies inherent in promotion process
• explaining that “harsh words are insufficient”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).