holding that plaintiff had a legitimate claim of entitlement because he had satisfied all of the objective statutory requirements
How later courts described this case
- holding that plaintiff had a legitimate claim of entitlement because he had satisfied all of the objective statutory requirements
- providing that “[sjince the present complaint ... raises a federal due process issue, the district court erred in dismissing it for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.”
- applicant had a legitimate claim of entitlement to take the examination for the professional status of psychologist, and "[d]ecisions to the contrary are distinguishable on the ground that, unlike the present case, they involved statutes granting broad and almost unlimited discretion to the licensing authority to deny the application.”
- applicant for psychologist’s license was not entitled to evidentiary hearing as part of the state’s administrative review of his application
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
VAN GRAAFEILAND,
Circuit Judge, concurring:
I concur in the result.