1. Whether the Second Circuit, in a " stigma -plus"
case, erred in affirming the District Court 's dismissal
of Petitioner 's procedural Due Process claim by
applying a temporal proximity test to find, as a matter
of law, no causative nexus between defamatory
statements concerning petitioner and the denial of the Plaintiff' s legal entitlements?

2. Whether the Second Circuit erred in not
according the pleaded deprivations the deference they
were entitled to under this Court' s precedent?

Whether the Second Circuit erred in applying a temporal proximity test to dismiss a procedural Due Process claim