223552P.pdf   09/19/2023  Samantha LaCoe  v.  City of Sisseton
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-3552
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Northern   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Colloton and Erickson, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. Plaintiff, a former Sisseton Police Officer, 
   alleged the City and numerous individual defendants violated her 
   Fourteenth Amendment procedural and substantive due process rights by 
   disciplining and constructively discharging her. The district court 
   granted defendants' motion to dismiss all federal claims and declined to 
   exercise supplemental jurisdiction over plaintiff's state law claim. 
   Plaintiff appeals the dismissal of her due process claims, arguing the 
   terms of her employment contract established a property interest in 
   continued employment and that she was not an at-will employee under South 
   Dakota law. Held: the Supreme Court of South Dakota would rule that the 
   contract did not change an at-will employment relationship as the City 
   expressly reserved its statutory at-will termination rights in Section 6 
   of the agreement; the complaint did not contain sufficient facts to 
   support plaintiff's claim for municipal liability.