Weston v. Cassata’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Goldberg v. Kelly · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police
Most-quoted passages
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“Although we agree that the “no entitlement” language modifies the unconditional entitlement to welfare benefits previously available under the AFDC program, we do not agree that it vitiates all forms of property rights in welfare benefits.... [T]he due process right under the new scheme is not “the guarantee of getting the benefit,” but rather the guarantee that, if and when the benefit is granted, the “government will employ a decisionmaking protocol reasonably likely to yield correct application of the legally relevant substantive criteria to the individual case.” [citation omitted] ... [B]ecause plaintiffs had a property right, albeit not an unlimited one, in con tinued receipt of welfare benefits, plaintiffs were constitutionally entitled to procedural due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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