Udc Chairs Chapter, American Association of University Professors v. The Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the two prongs of a due process claim are whether the employee was deprived of a protected interest, and if so, whether he received the process he was due
• noting that if “the deprivation turns on a policy decision and not on an individual’s characteristics, a pre-deprivation hearing would do little to reduce the risk of erroneous deprivation”
• noting that if “the deprivation turns on a policy decision and not on an individual’s characteristics, a pre- deprivation hearing would do little to reduce the risk of erroneous deprivation”
• finding little risk of erroneous deprivation in not having a pre-summer hearing where a decision not to grant summer contracts to professors was made as a result of budgetary shortfalls
• mere “probability of administrative denial of the relief requested does not excuse failure to pursue administrative remedies”
• “Where, as here, the deprivation turns on a policy decision and not on an individual’s characteristics, a pre-deprivation hearing would do little to reduce the risk of erroneous deprivation of the [employees’] interests.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).