Local 342, Long Island Public Service Employees, Umd, Ila, Afl-Cio v. Town Board Of The Town Of Huntington

How courts have described this case

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• holding there is no protected property interest where there is “nothing more than a simple contractual right to receive . . . payments”
• finding “simple, state-law contractual rights, without more, [not] worthy of substantive due process protection” because they are “not the type of important interests” that have been recognized
• to sustain an alleged violation of substantive due process, the right at issue must be “so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental”
• “In view of our conclusion that [plaintiffs] possessed no protectible property interest ..., it would appear obvious that [defendants’] termination of those payments in no way violated the [plaintiffs’] substantive due process rights.”
• “In view of our conclusion that the Union possessed no protectible property interest in the insurance payments, it would appear obvious that the Town’s termination of those payments in no way violated the substantive due process rights of Local 342.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).