John D. Alvin v. Jon B. Suzuki

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a tenured professor failed to state a § 1983 due process claim because he did not use the prescribed grievance procedure correctly
• explaining that a due process violation occurs only upon failure to provide due process, not upon the deprivation of property
• stating that there is no due process violation when “procedural protection[’s] [were] available and the plaintiff has simply refused to avail himself of them.”
• explaining that bias in early stages of termination process does not prove bias in later stages
• explaining that amendment is futile where the amended complaint could not survive a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim
• holding “amendment is futile if the amended complaint would not survive a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted”

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