Renaud v. Wyoming Department of Family Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that lapse of “several days” between termination and statements did not defeat stigma- plus claim
• noting that “the nature and the timing of an allegedly defamatory statement” is relevant “to determine whether it has been made in the course of an employee’s termination
• requiring that statements occur in course of terminating employee
• “Timing is certainly one consideration in determining whether stigmatizing statements are made in the course of the termination of employment.”
• rejecting plaintiffs liberty interest claim because the statement regarding plaintiffs termination was unrelated to the reason or manner of termination
• “[D]efamation, standing alone, [is] not sufficient to establish a claim for deprivation of a liberty interest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).