Trivoli v. Multnomah County Rural Fire Protection District No. 10

This action arises from the termination of plaintiffs employment as a probationary firefighter by defendant Fire Protection District No. 10 and the denial by defendant Civil Service Commission of his request for a meeting to discuss his termination. The dispositive issue is whether he had a property interest in his employment so that the failure to give him notice and a pretermination hearing violated his right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We conclude that he had no protectible property interest. Therefore, we affirm.

Plaintiff was hired as a…