United States Fourth Circuit

In a suit stemming from the termination of a private at-will consulting agreement with a subcontractor on a Coast Guard project, the district court's grant of summary judgment to the defendants is affirmed, where: 1) the plaintiff's procedural due process claim failed because did not suffer a constitutionally cognizable injury and there was no state action; and 2) state tort law claims for civil conspiracy, statutory business conspiracy, and tortious interference with prospective economic advantage were properly rejected.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/12/2012
• Published 03/12/2012

Judges

• Wilkinson

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew Henry Simmons, Dennis Carl Barghaan, Jr.