Billie Jo Leatham v. Hugh Mose

Whether due process is violated when a public employee is terminated based on hearsay, misattribution, and later recanted testimony, and the courts treat these substantive factual reversals as clerical errors rather than constitutional defects.

Whether summary judgment is improper under Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317 (1986), and Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242 (1986), where the record contains sworn recantations, contradictory testimony, credibility disputes subject to Rule 806 impeachment, and no signed or corroborated statements supporting the employer’s justification.

Whether claim preclusion may be applied to a non-adversarial grievance process that lacked discovery, cross-examination, neutral adjudication, and meaningful representation, contrary to Rue v. KMart Corp., 552 Pa. 13, 713 A.2d 82 (1998); Taylor v. Stargell, 553 U.S. 880 (2008); and Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc., 590 U.S. , 140 S. Ct. 1589 (2020).