Ronald Swick v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that Due Process Clause does not protect “purely dignitary or otherwise nonpecuniary dimensions of employment”
• affirming the decision to dismiss a police officer’s due process claim because “property” should not “be extended to the purely dignitary or otherwise nonpecuniary dimensions of employment”
• finding no deprivation of a property interest where plaintiff police officer placed on involuntary sick leave was required to turn in his badge and gun, and was forbidden from exercising the powers of a police officer, but had alleged no loss of pecuniary benefits
• no property deprivation where a police department placed an officer on involuntary sick leave for over a year but still paid him his full income
• “We do not think that ‘property’ within the sense of the amendment should be extended to the purely dignitary or otherwise non-pecuniary dimensions of employment.”
• property under the Fourteenth Amendment doesn’t extend to “purely dignitary or otherwise nonpecuniary dimensions of employment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).