#protected interests

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Here's How!

Puck magazine, 1908

Artist: Udo Keppler

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Administrative Law—Protected Interests

Property--includes tangible items, real property, money, and some intangible items such as entitlements to government benefits.

Professional licenses are considered "property" for due process purposes.  Therefore, there must be notice and an opportunity to be heard.

HOWEVER, holder of an existing license DOES NOT have a property right in the renewal of the license.

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Administrative Law—Protected Interests

Liberty--includes fundamental rights (i.e. right to travel, work, procreate, marry) and courts have expanded the concept of liberty, requiring agency hearings for the following:

Long-term suspension or expulsion from school;

Deportation of illegal immigrants; and

The creation of a stigma affecting a person's ability to obtain employment.

Regarding the third bullet point:  mere injury is insufficient.  It must be STIGMA + INJURY coupled with OTHER NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES.