Court Opinion

ID: 9470813
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 03:16:37.053751+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:42:06.978259
License: Public Domain

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I am quite prepared to assume but not to hold (it not being necessary), that the plaintiff had a property interest. A judge has frequent occasion to appreciate restraint by his predecessors, and their refusal to decide what need not have been decided. My concurrence is solely to reduce the possibility of unwieldly precedent should the question of what would constitute a constitutionally protected property right arise in the future in a context requiring resolution. I would fashion no unnecessary handcuffs for those who come after me.
In all events, however, I am satisfied that due process has not been denied and that the result reached by my panel colleagues is quite correct.