BEHAN v. CITY OF DOVER

Civ. A. No. 75-38.

419 F.Supp. 562 (1976)

Cuthbert J. BEHAN, III, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF DOVER et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

August 24, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myron T. Steele and David B. Ripsom of Prickett, Ward, Burt & Sanders, Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff.

Nicholas H. Rodriguez of Schmittinger & Rodriguez, Dover, Del., for defendants.


OPINION

STEEL, Senior District Judge:

The question before the Court is whether plaintiff, who has been deprived of his property and liberty by virtue of his dismissal as a police officer and the attendant publicity, has been denied procedural and substantive due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment because of the alleged insufficiency of the hearings accorded to him.

Plaintiff has brought a civil action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against...

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