United States Tenth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case brought arising from defendant-town's termination of plaintiff-deputy marshal, summary judgment for the town is affirmed as: 1) the town consitutionally revised its old policies; 2) plaintiff could not subject the town to liability under section 1983 for acting negligently; 3) he lacked a substantive-due-process right in continued employment; and 4) his employment manuals did not amount to contracts with the town.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/03/2007
• Published 08/06/2007

Judges

• HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, HOLLOWAY, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Angela L. Ekker of Barnhart, Ekker & McNally, LLP, Englewood, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Andrew Nathan (Allyson C. Hodges with him on the brief), of Nathan, Bremer, Dumm & Myers, P.C., Denver, CO, for Defendant-Appellee.