United States Tenth Circuit

In an action claiming that Plaintiff police officer was discharged without adequate procedural safeguards after he suffered from a psychiatric episode that caused him to take administrative leave, the denial of qualified immunity is reversed, where the city's three-step appeals process provided adequate pretermination due process for Plaintiff to challenge the decision.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/10/2009
• Published 07/10/2009

Judges

• TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge., Before HARTZ, TYMKOVICH, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John R. Mann (Kevin P. Perez with him on the briefs) Kennedy Childs & Fogg, P.C., Denver, CO, for Defendants-Appellants., Joseph A. Salazar, The Salazar Consultant Group, LLC, Thornton, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellee.