Mary Lou Lawson v. Sheriff of Tippecanoe County, Indiana

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• noting that plaintiff was required to ―direct the judge to the portion‖ of the record that was relevant to her opposition to summary judgment
• observing that an offer of re-employment at an equivalent level would negate a deprivation of plaintiff’s liberty interest
• \But the courts have found a deprivation of liberty when the employee was fired for a publicly announced reason that impugned his moral character.\
• “But the courts have found a deprivation of liberty when the employee was fired for a publicly announced reason that impugned his moral character.”
• “The concept of liberty in Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence has long included the liberty to follow a trade, profession, or other calling.”
• employee’s liberty interest may be infringed when stated reasons for termination “make him all but unemployable in the future”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).