Robert P. Coyne v. City of Somerville

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• stating that, under Rule 12(b)(6), courts \take the well-pleaded facts as they appear in the complaint\
• noting that “property interests” normally wane as governmental regulation waxes
• “violations of state law—even where arbitrary, capricious, or undertaken in bad 14 faith—do not, without more, give rise to a denial of substantive due process under the U.S. Constitution”
• “[T]he ‘line between sufficient facts and insufficient conclusions is often blurred.’”
• state teacher certification requirement does not confer a job \entitlement\ upon any particular applicant
• \A plaintiff may not prevail simply by asserting an inequity and tacking on the self-serving conclusion that the defendant was motivated by a discriminatory animus.\ (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

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