Cynthia Grantham Wright v. Peter J. Cayan, Individually and as President of the State University of New York College of Technology

MAHONEY, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Cynthia Grantham Wright appeals from a grant of summary judgment, 642 F.Supp. 947, to defendantappellee Peter J. Cayan in an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) for deprivation of Wright’s property right in her employment by the state. Specifically, Wright argues that she should not have been dismissed from her job without cause and a hearing. We affirm.

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Wright was hired by William R. Kunsela, then president of the State University of New York College at Utica/Rome.1 Her job classification under the civil service law was “secretary to the…