United States Eighth Circuit

A government employee who fails to request post-termination process cannot later sue for having been deprived of it. Denial of judgment as a matter of law for defendant-municipality on a claim brought by a former police officer alleging that defendant deprived plaintiff of a liberty interest in his good name is reversed where plaintiff never sought a name-clearing hearing before suing for damages.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/29/2006
• Published 03/29/2006

Judges

• GRUENDER, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, ARNOLD and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellant was Julie Anne Fleming-Wolfe of St. Paul, Minnesota.


• For Appellees:
  
• Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellee was Marshall H. Tanick of Minneapolis, Minnesota.   Also appearing on the brief was Teresa J. Ayling.