California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Goldberg v. Regents of University of Cal., 248 Cal.App.2d 867, 57 Cal.Rptr. 463 (Cal. App. 1967):
12 In the cases dealing with public employment, there has also been a change from no constitutional right to public employment (McAuliffe v. City of New Bedford, 155 Mass. 216, 29 N.E. 517) to a recognition that the power of government to withhold benefits from its citizens does not encompass a supposed 'lesser' power to grant such benefits upon an arbitrary deprivation of constitutional rights (Bagley v. Washington Township Hospital Dist., 65 A.C. 540, 545, 55 Cal.Rptr. 401, 421 P.2d 409).
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