Leonard Levitt v. The University of Texas at El Paso and Haskell Monroe, Individually and as Representative of Utep

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• holding that tenured employees have a constitutional interest in continued employment
• providing that a violation of internal rules “may constitute a breach of contract or violation of state law, but unless the conduct trespasses on federal constitutional safeguards, there is no constitutional deprivation”
• enumerating the “due process protections to which a tenured professor is entitled before he may be dismissed”
• requiring “a hearing before a tribunal that possesses some academic expertise and an apparent impartiality toward the charges”
• rejecting assertion that a “state’s failure to 21 Case: 21-51039 Document: 00516707857 Page: 22 Date Filed: 04/11/2023 No. 21-51039 follow its own [procedural] rules is a per se deprivation of substantive due process”
• “There is not a violation of due process every time a university or other government entity violates its own rules.”

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