Midwest Grinding Co. v. Spitz

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• explaining that when reviewing dismissal of a complaint, appellate court need only consider allegations raised in complaint and not new allegations raised on appeal
• holding civil rights plaintiff lacked standing to require disciplinary proceedings -2- to be filed against another
• affirming dismissal for lack of standing because grievant could not assert any cognizable legal interest in disciplinary commission’s decision
• “The mere expectation of receiving a state afforded process does not itself create an independent liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.”
• mere expectation of receiving state afforded process does not itself create independent liberty interest protected by Due Process Clause
• “[A] private citizen lacks a judicially cognizable interest in the prosecution or nonprosecution of another.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).