United States Second Circuit

A complaint sufficiently alleged that demotion from one civil service position to another was a deprivation of property without due process of law, requiring notice and an opportunity to be heard, but such a claim was not proper against the Civil Service Employees Association, a non-state actor.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/04/2002
• Published 06/04/2002

Judges

• Before: SACK, B.D. PARKER, and B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lewis M. Wasserman,Wasserman & Steen, Patchogue, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant Daniel J. Ciambriello.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter A. Bee, Bee, Eisman & Ready, LLP, Mineola, NY (W. Matthew Groh, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees County of Nassau, Russell Rinchiuso, and Richard Cotugno., William A. Herbert, Albany, NY (Leslie C. Perrin, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. and Ron Roeill.