United States First Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants on plaintiff's claims that he received insufficient procedural due process in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment in relation to the termination of his employment, and that defendants violated the Rhode Island Constitution and Whistleblowers' Protection Act when it fired him, is affirmed, where: 1) the procedural due process given to plaintiff, which included a pre-deprivation hearing and a post-termination arbitration proceeding, satisfied plaintiff's rights to procedural due process; 2) the district court acted within its discretion in reaching and resolving plaintiff's state law claims; and 3) the district court did not err in resolving the state law claims in defendants' favor.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/03/2013
• Published 05/03/2013

Judges

• CASPER

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel