United States First Circuit

A local school district's transmission of a termination letter to the state Commissioner of Education does not constitute public dissemination of allegedly false and defamatory information sufficient to trigger due process hearing protections for public employees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/14/2005
• Published 10/14/2005

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA and LYNCH, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Floyd H. Anderson, with whom Law Offices of Floyd H. Anderson, P.C., was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia M. Rapinchuk, with whom Dorothy Varon and Robinson Donovan, P.C., were on brief, for appellees.