Mt. Hawley Insurance Company v. City of Richmond Heights, MO

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How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Converting alleged violations of state law into federal . . . due process claims improperly bootstraps state law into the Constitution.”
• “[V]iolation of state law is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a finding of a due process violation.”
• “[A] violation of state law is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a finding of a due process violation.”
• “In equal protection terms, if the legislative purpose be legitimate, a challenge may not prevail so long as the question of rational relationship [to legislative purpose] is at least debatable.”

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