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

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 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 Plaintiffs 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?