Second Circuit· 6/13/2003

Sealed v. Sealed

Citations

332 F.3d 51
2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 11720
2003 WL 21363384

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holding that Conn. Gen. Stat. § 17a-101(a) “creates no discrete rights or reasonable expectations in any specific protective measures” and therefore “does not create ‘entitlements’ that receive constitutional protection under the Fourteenth Amendment”
noting that certification may be appropriate if other “factors strongly suggest that [courts] defer to the Connecticut Supreme Court”
discussing how federal courts “may ordinarily interpret ambiguous state statutes using the normal rules of statutory interpretation, even in the absence of controlling state authority”
if the administrative scheme “does not require a certain outcome, but merely authorizes particular actions and remedies, the scheme does not create ‘entitlements’ that receive constitutional protection”
“Where the administrative scheme does not require a certain outcome, but merely authorizes particular actions and remedies, the scheme does not create ‘entitlements’ that receive constitutional protection under the Fourteenth Amendment.”
certification favored where question of state law “implicates the weighing of policy 16 concerns”

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Judges: Parker, Straub, Sack

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