Lawrence Head v. Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees

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• holding that charge of “ineptitude” did not implicate a liberty interest
• noting that adjudicators are presumed to act in good faith absent evidence of actual prejudgment
• indicating that if a public employee can show both the public infliction of a stigma as well as a “tangible loss of other employment opportunities as a result of the public disclosure,” then the employee can state a claim for deprivation of a liberty interest
• granting summary judgment to the defendant board of trustees where the plaintiff did not come forward with sufficient evidence of bias to rebut presumption of good faith accorded to adjudicators
• finding that the plaintiff received adequate notice even when the charges were not as specific as he would have liked where the plaintiff “was fully apprised of the charges at the hearing and that afterwards he was able to submit a brief in response to the evidence presented at the hearing”
• \Falsely charging an employee with unsatisfactory job performance when terminating him does not infringe his liberty interest. . . .\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).