John Gil Construction, Inc. v. Riverso’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “[although there is no doubt that plaintiffs concerns regarding its ability to contract with city, state and federal agencies together with its interest in protecting its good name and reputation are important and nontrivial, those concerns “simply are not sufficiently weighty to warrant their protection under the substantive due process rubric.” Empire Transit Mix, Inc. v. Giuliani, 37 F.Supp.2d 331, 340 (S.D.N.Y.1999) (finding that city’s de facto debarment of concrete supplier from working on city contracts did not violate substantive due process). Put another way, plaintiff cannot show that the SCA’s actions are so “ ‘conscience-shocking [ ] or oppressive in a constitutional sense’ ” that they threaten fundamental notions of liberty and justice. See Catanzaro v. Weiden, 188 F.3d 56, 64 (2d Cir.1999) (quoting Kaluczky v. City of White Plains, 57 F.3d 202, 211 (2d Cir.1995)).”

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2. “[TJhere is no question that suspension by a New York City agency — and publication of that suspension on VEN-DEX — is stigmatizing and damaging to a public contractor desiring to do business with other city, state and federal agencies. However, to adequately allege that such damage rises to the level of a constitutional deprivation of liberty, JGC must demonstrate not just that the suspension by the SCA harmed its reputation, but that the SCA publicized false information about the company. This plaintiff fails to do.”

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3. “the SCA”. 13 . Because the language of the federal and state due process clauses is identical, my analysis of the sufficiency of plaintiff’s federal due process claims applies with equal force to the sufficiency of plaintiffs state due process claims. 14 . VENDEX is a publicly accessible database of all vendors who wish to do business with the City of New York. Under the City Charter,”

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