Piacitelli v. Southern Utah State College

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• holding that the school’s policy manual created only a “contractual obligation” and did not create “statutory or constitutional rights”
• holding that the school's policy manual created only a \contractual obligation\ and did not create \statutory or constitutional rights\
• finding substantial compliance with policies in college personnel manual sufficient to withstand due process attack
• finding substantial compliance with policies in college personnel manual sufficient to withstand due process attack
• describing the appropriate measure of damages for an employee dismissed without compliance with an employment contract and stating simply that ―[t]he employee is also entitled to interest at the statutory rate as specified in [section] 15-1-1‖
• employer satisfied four-step “progressive discipline” procedure with actions that fulfilled underlying purpose of giving “early warning of possible consequences”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).