Steven Cromwell v. City of Momence

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an Illinois at-will employee did not possess a protected property interest in his job with the police department
• noting “[t]he mere presence of a probationary period does not by implica- tion create an enforceable property right to continued em- ployment for nonprobationary employees”
• noting “[t]he mere presence of a probationary period does not by implica- tion create an enforceable property right to continued em- ployment for nonprobationary employees”
• “establishing an expectation of continued employment requires a clear statement made in some ‘substantive state-law predicate[.]’”
• “Because property interests are created by state law, we examine [plaintiff]’s claim with reference to the law of the state where he was employed, here Illinois.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).