Inc. had a property interest protectable by substantive due process and, therefore, that their Section 1983 claim must fail. IV. The courts should dismiss a Section 1983 complaint once they determine that the complaining party lacks a protect-able liberty or property interest. See, e.g., Dix v. County of Shasta, 963 F.2d 1296, 1301 (9th Cir.1992); Dube v. State Univ. of New York, 900 F.2d 587, 589 (2d Cir.1990). Accordingly, because we have determined that Parks Properties and Columbia Warehouses, Inc. have failed to establish that they had a protectable property interest in constructing the warehouses without automatic sprinklers, we need not reach the issues of Ms. Langsdon’s qualified immunity or damages. American Mfrs. Mut. Ins. Co. v. Sullivan, 526 U.S. at 61, 119 S.Ct. at 990 (<HOLDING>); Triomphe Inv’rs v. City of Northwood, 49 F.3d
holding that this lack of any reasonable expectation of continued employment suffices to establish the lack of property in the constitutional sense and hence the lack of a viable due process claim holding that lack of justiciable interest resulted in lack of standing to pursue claim and that lack of standing deprived the trial court of jurisdiction to act holding that a court need go no further after concluding that a plaintiffs due process claim falters for lack of a property interest holding that plaintiffs may have a property interest in real property holding that applicants for welfare benefits had a property interest or legitimate claim of entitlement and were entitled to due process to protect that interest