The following excerpt is from Walker v. Kernan, No. 2:17-cv-1764 KJM DB P (E.D. Cal. 2019):
Plaintiff cannot state a claim for deprivation of his right to due process without first establishing a liberty interest. Wilkinson v. Austin, 545 U.S. 209, 221 (2005) (The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause protects persons against deprivations of life, liberty, or property; and those who seek to invoke its procedural protections must establish that one of these interests is at stake.). Plaintiff appears to allege that his rights were violated during Departmental
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