United States Fourth Circuit

A viable section 1983 claim cannot be maintained if a state employee's conduct was random and unauthorized, rendering it impracticable for the State to provide a predeprivation hearing, so long as the State has provided for an adequate postdeprivation remedy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/02/2005
• Published 02/02/2005

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS and KING, Circuit Judges, and Louise W. FLANAGAN, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Kevin Roger Eberle, Rosen, Rosen & Hagood, L.L.C., Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Andrew Frederick Lindemann, Davidson, Morrison & Lindemann, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:Mary Ann Hall, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Terry B. Millar, Terry B. Millar, L.L.C., Rock Hill, South Carolina;  R. Bryan Barnes, Thomas McRoy Shelley, III, Katherine B. Barroll, Rogers, Townsend And Thomas, P.C., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees.