United States First Circuit

In a suit alleging that termination proceedings for a probation officer violated his procedural due process rights, dismissal for failure to state a claim is affirmed where: 1) the initial hearing granted to the plaintiff did not deviate from state law; and 2) the hearing did not violate due process.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/22/2008
• Published 01/22/2008

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, LIPEZ, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mitchell J. Notis for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sarah M. Joss, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Martha Coakley, Attorney General, was on brief for appellee.