Pollock v. Baxter Manor Nursing Home

MEMORANDUM OPINION

H. FRANKLIN WATERS, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff, Loraine Pollock, brought this action on January 6, 1981, alleging that the defendant, Baxter Manor Nursing Home, deprived her of procedural due process of law in discharging her from employment under stigmatizing conditions without according her prior notice or hearing. Plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. §§ 1343(3) and (4).. In its answer, defendant denied that any constitutionally protected “liberty” interest was implicated in plaintiff’s termination and asserted…