Section 12 Liberty Interest

• Library: Employer-Employee Law 2008

An action by a public employer that publicly stigmatizes the personal character or morality of an employee infringes on the employee’s “liberty interest” in pursuing future employment opportunities. In this circumstance, the employee is entitled to due process to have an opportunity to clear the employee’s reputation, even if there is no legitimate expectancy of continued employment. Bd. of Regents of State Colls. v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 573–74 (1972); Owen v. City of Independence, Mo., 445 U.S. 622, 633...