Leroy v. New York City Board of Elections

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “[t]he Supreme Court has long held that “there is no property or liberty interest in an elected office,” citing Snowden v. Hughes, 321 U.S. 1, 7 (1944), and collecting cases
• noting that “if the denial of ballot access is a deprivation within the ambit of due process, deprivation occurs at the first moment a voter can cast a ballot in the subject election contest, if the candidate has not yet been reinstated to the ballot
• “The Supreme Court has long held that there is no property or liberty interest in an elected office.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Critically, the Second Circuit has already approved the post-deprivation process provided to potential candidates under New York Election law.”
• candidate’s due process claim, alleging that the board of elections violated her due process rights when they failed to certify her name for the ballot, failed because she had no property interest in her candidacy

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