Ripley v. Wyoming Medical Center, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a Wyoming statute that required hospitals to consider an applicant's competency, in addition to the type of degree held, created at most a state law interest in being considered for hospital privileges
• holding that a Wyoming statute that required hospitals to consider an applicant's competency, in addition to the type of degree held, created at most a state law interest in being considered for hospital privileges
• treating the issue of whether an employee had a protected property interest as a legal question
• discussing alternative property interests—one in receiving hospital privileges and another in exercising those privileges
• “ ‘an entitlement to nothing but procedure’ cannot serve as the basis for a property right protected by the Due Process Clause”
• “To set forth an actionable procedural due process claim, a plaintiff must demonstrate: (1) the deprivation of a liberty or property interest and (2) that no due process of law was afforded.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).