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133070P.pdf   11/18/2014  Leslie Crews  v.  Monarch Fire Protection Dist.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-3070
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Smith and Kelly, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil Rights. Fired fire chiefs were employees-at-will under 
   Missouri law and the defendant's internal rules did not imply an 
   enforceable employment contract which would change their status; as a 
   result, the chiefs did not have a property interest in their continued 
   employment under the Fourteenth Amendment; chiefs failed to identify any 
   admissible evidence containing a sufficiently stigmatizing statements to 
   create a liberty interest.