A witness summarily fired from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Witness Security Program cannot make a claim for lack of due process, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said yesterday.

The circuit found that a plaintiff, an incarcerated one-time cooperator referred to only as J.S., could not bring an action alleging he was terminated without being afforded procedural due process.

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