as protected by the Constitution are welfare benefits and employment, for example, for tenured professors. See Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254, 90 S.Ct. 1011, 25 L.Ed.2d 287 (1970); Perry v. Sindermann, 408 U.S. 593, 92 S.Ct. 2694, 33 L.Ed.2d 570 (1972); Bd. of Regents of State Colls, v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 92 S.Ct. 2701, 33 L.Ed.2d 548 (1972). Indeed, plaintiff has failed to cite any binding authority recognizing “confidentiality” as a property right. Moreover, the Supreme Court has been reluctant to recognize new property interests, particularly when the interest does not have “some ascertainable monetary value” under the entitlement, such as financial payments under Medicaid. Town of Castle Rock, Colo. v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748, 766-67, 125 S.Ct. 2796, 162 L.Ed.2d 658 (2005) (<HOLDING>). Thus, there is no legally viable argument
holding that an individual entitlement to enforcement of a restraining order does not have some ascertainable monetary value as even our rothtype propertyasentitlement cases have implicitly required internal quotation marks and citation omitted holding that in order to support a separate conviction for aggravated kidnapping the assailants detention must have made the assault substantially easier to commit citation and internal quotation marks omitted holding that the party seeking a new trial must make an affirmative showing that some extraneous influence came to bear on the jurys deliberations internal quotation marks and citation omitted holding that apprendi error is harmless if the court finds beyond a reasonable doubt that the result would have been the same absent the error internal quotation marks and citation omitted holding with respect to a general motion for directed verdict that it raised the question as to the sufficiency of the evidence on venue an essential part of the governments case internal quotation marks and citation omitted