US SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

Respondent's claim under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that, before being dismissed from his nontenured position as a city policeman, he was entitled to a hearing due to the stigmatizing effect of certain information in his personnel file about a suicide attempt while he was a police trainee held to be defeated by the failure of respondent or the courts below to raise a question about the substantial accuracy of the report of the suicide attempt. Only if the employer is alleged to have created and disseminated a false and defamatory impression about the employee in connection with his termination, or a trial court so finds, is such a hearing required.

525 F.2d 334, reversed.