Howard Johnson Co. v. Detroit Local Joint Executive Board

How later courts describe this case

• to have a property interest in a benefit, a person must have a legitimate claim of entitlement to it
• N.L.R.B. decision "res judicata" on issue of liability in subsequent suit for damages
• property interests created and defined by rules and statutes
• “To have a property interest in a benefit, a person clearly must have more than an abstract need or desire for it. He must have more than a unilateral expectation of it. He must, instead, have a legitimate claim of entitlement to it.”
• applying the same test in the public employee context