Robert George Ferencz, Doing Business as Blue Line Remodeling Gary W. Kerekes, Doing Business as Sunnyside Construction Company v. Dianna Hairston

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• concluding that because neither plaintiff in Ferencz was a terminated public employee, district court incorrectly based dismissal on their failure to request a name-clearing hearing
• holding that as publication of defamatory comments complained of was not accompanied by the deprivation of any tangible interest such as continued em ployment, the publication did not deprive plaintiffs of a liberty interest
• holding that the publication of defamatory comments did not deprive plaintiffs of a liberty interest because “interest in reputation alone…is ‘quite different’ from the liberty interest that the Due Process Clause protects” (quoting Paul, 424 U.S. at 711
• “As with the plaintiff Davis in Paul, the interest in reputation alone which the plaintiffs in this case seek to vindicate is ‘quite different’ from the liberty interest that the Due Process Clause protects.”

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