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In this procedural due process case, the majority affirmed summary judgment against the plaintiff employee on most claims, but Justice Summers' dissent argues the liberty interest claim should have gone to a jury on whether the plaintiff was falsely stigmatized by public statements made by the government employer's chairman in connection with his discharge.
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