con law uworld

Question 1

Public employees have a protected property interest in their employment if they:

Answer 1

have an ongoing employment contract
can only be fired for cause or
receive assurances of continued employment.

The mathematician’s claim raises the Fourteenth Amendment right to procedural due process, which requires the state to provide a person with notice and a meaningful opportunity to be heard when it deprives that person of a life, liberty, or property interest.