Schwartz v. Eaton

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a duty of good faith and fair dealing was not a property interest under the due process clause
• “This court has recognized that Board of Estimate approval of a development project will be based on political considerations and the climate of public opinion”
• “There is a distinction between the breach of an ordinary contract right and the deprivation of a protectible property interest within the meaning of the due process clause”
• “Here, ... as in S & D Maintenance, we need not definitively resolve the question whether the contractual rights asserted ... are of the kind protectible under section 1983, because they had not in any event achieved that concreteness of entitlement required by Roth and its progeny.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).