Marentette v. City of Canandaigua

ELIZABETH A. WOLFORD, United States District Judge

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Mark Marentette ("Plaintiff") commenced this civil rights action alleging that Defendants violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights when they terminated him as Fire Chief of the City of Canandaigua. (Dkt. 21). Specifically, Plaintiff claims that Defendants terminated him without due process, and that Defendants deprived him of his right to petition the government for redress by requiring that he communicate with local government officials through his attorney. (See id. at 6-9).

Presently before the Court are…