# McKinney v. Pate

> Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · May 5, 1994 · 20 F.3d 1550

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6930294

## Case

- **Full name:** Millard McKINNEY v. John PATE, individually and in his official capacity as Commissioner of the Osceola County Board of Commissioners, Jack Shannin, individually and in his official capacity as Development Department Director of Osceola County, and the Osceola County Board of Commissioners, collectively
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- **Decided:** May 5, 1994
- **Citations:** 20 F.3d 1550; 1994 WL 171450
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Hatchett
- **Judges:** Anderson, Birch, Black, Carnes, Cox, Dubina, Edmondson, Hatchett, Kravitch, Tjoflat
- **Cited by:** 688 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Abrogated in part, on other grounds by County of Sacramento v. Lewis, 523 U.S. 833 (1998).
- Negative treatments: 3
- Distinguished by: 2
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6930294

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that when the plaintiff was provided with a pretermination hearing, but failed to apply for an available posttermination hearing and chose instead to pursue a § 1983 claim in federal court, the presence of an adequate state posttermination remedy "mandates that . . . n…
- concluding that the plaintiffs action asserted claims alleging violations of procedural due process and that “the appropriate remedy in this case is not lost wages and benefits calculated on the basis of McKinney’s remaining working life; rather proper remedies include reinsta…
- stating that the second Chevron Oil factor requires that "the application of the old rule in the instant case must not contravene the purpose and operation of the provision being interpreted" and that the third factor requires that the "application of the new rule in the insta…
- holding that procedural due process claim, in which the plaintiff alleged that decision-makers in his pre-termination hearing were biased, was barred because the plaintiff did not show that post-termination remedies in Florida courts, which could have ordered a new hearing con…
- stating that the second Chevron Oil factor requires that “the appbeation of the old rule in the instant case must not contravene the purpose and operation of the provision being interpreted” and that the third factor requires that the “appbeation of the new rule in the instant…

## Opinion text

HATCHETT, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
I join in the judgment holding that McKinney did not present a substantive due process claim according to Supreme Court precedent. I write specially to emphasize the fact that we are not holding that one who suffers a due process violation must first seek relief in state courts, or follow state administrative procedures before bringing a lawsuit in the federal courts. The Supreme Court rejected such a contention over twelve years ago in Patsy v. Board of Regents, 457 U.S. 496 , 102 S.Ct. 2557 , 73 L.Ed.2d 172 (1982).

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