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112792P.pdf 08/22/2012 Carmen Austell v. Kimberly Sprenger
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-2792
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Melloy and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil Rights. The Department of Human Services
defendants could reasonably conclude that the plaintiff child care center
had no constitutionally protected property interest in the renewal of its
license, and the district court did not err in granting the defendants
summary judgment based on qualified immunity; defendants were also
entitled to qualified immunity on plaintiffs' claim that defendants'
announcement concerning plaintiffs' unlicensed status violated plaintiffs'
due process liberty interests; even assuming plaintiffs had a state law
right to a settlement offer, there is no constitutionally cognizable interest
in the offer itself; defendants were entitled to official immunity on
plaintiffs' state law claims for tortious interference with a business
expectancy.