Jones v. Chatham County

How courts have described this case

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• no violation of procedural due process when employee did not receive pre-termination hearing and refused to participate in post-termination hearing scheduled five months later
• \the deprivation resulting from a failure to have a... hearing does not ripen into a procedural due process violation unless the state `refuses to make available a means to remedy the deprivation.' [Cit.]\
• “the deprivation resulting from a failure to have a . . . hearing does not ripen into a procedural due process violation unless the state ‘refuses to make available a means to remedy the deprivation.’ [Cit.]”
• available post-termination procedures cured employer’s failure to have pretermination hearing
• handbook is not considered a contract with respect to termination procedures
• circumstantial evidence may link reprisal to speech

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).