Joseph Michael Haley v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that ex parte presentation of evidence during an employee’s discharge hearing denied the employee due process
• whether adequate procedures would have changed the outcome is relevant to damages, not liability
• “Only if there is no provision for a post-termination hearing must the pre-termination hearing provide all the procedural safe- guards to which due process entitles a tenured public employee.”
• restriction on non-fundamental liberty “violates the due process clause only if utterly unreasonable”
• “If Swank was fired on a ground likely to exclude him ...“his damages will be greater if he can show that as a result of being fired for conduct unbecoming a police officer he has been excluded from his chosen occupatidn;” “the effect will be to exclude him from police work....”
• \If Swank was fired on a ground likely to exclude him ...;\ \his damages will be greater if he can show that as a result of being fired for conduct unbecoming a police officer he has been excluded from his chosen occupation;\ \the effect will be to exclude him from police work....\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).