Yale Auto Parts, Inc. v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• acknowledging the “egregious misconduct” of members of the West Haven, Connecticut zoning board but concluding the plaintiff had no property right under the Due Process Clause, and thus no cognizable claim
• “[T]o have a ‘property’ interest entitled to Fourteenth Amendment procedural protection!,] a person ... must have more than a unilateral expectation of it.”
• allegation that others were treated differently is “essential” to an equal protection claim
• in absence of protected property interest, no due process violation even though city engaged in “egregious misconduct”
• no legitimate claim of entitlement since certificate of location approval was discretionary
• “[E]ven an outright violation of state law in the denial of a license will not necessarily provide the basis for a federal claim, at least when the applicant has a state law remedy.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).