United States Second Circuit

Due process is satisfied so long as the government provides a neutral adjudicator at the post-termination hearing for a tenured public employee, and does not require a neutral adjudicator at a pre-termination hearing of a tenured public employee.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/11/2000
• Decided 08/27/2001
• Published 08/27/2001

Judges

• CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:, Before: OAKES, CARDAMONE, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• George Gutwirth, New York, NY (Francis F. Caputo, John F. Wirenius, Leonard J. Koerner, Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, NY, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellants., Christopher Dunn, New York, NY (Arthur Eisenberg, Norman Siegel, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellee Joseph Locurto., Michael N. Block, New York, NY (Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C., New York, NY, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellee Jonathan Walters., Robert Didio, Kew Gardens, NY (Brettschneider & Didio, LLP, Kew Gardens, NY, of counsel), filed a brief for Plaintiff-Appellee Robert Steiner.