Sylvia Driggins v. City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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• holding that representations or mutual understandings contrary to an explicit city charter provision cannot lead to a property interest where officials making representations did not have authority to deviate from the express city charter provisions
• “[M]utually explicit understandings that constitute property interests ... cannot be based on the representations of government officials who are not authorized to make such representations.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “We decline to adopt a broad rule that questions of a property right in employment are always issues of law for the judge.”

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