David Pilver v. Hillsborough County, Florida, et al.

Essentially: Does the Eleventh Circuit's "discharge or more" rule in public employee defamation cases, which conflicts with other circuits' due process decisions, too narrowly restrict the 14' Amendment via 42 U.S.C. § 1983? Can a circuit ignore an explicit state law property interest in deference to its own severity measure rule when deciding if due process has been violated? Does a court's refusal to entertain First Amendment arguments after a plainly stated claim of retaliation after whistle-blowing, or to engage a custom orpolicyexamination despite a robust fact pattern, meet the obligations of a "liberally construed" and "less stringent" standard and Federal Rule 8(e)? Should agency action taken without the jurisdictional authority to act trigger substantive due process review, acting as a threshold question before further prececlentiall metrics can be reached?