Harry Duchesne v. Wylie L. Williams, Jr., and the City of Inkster, a Municipal Corporation

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

This procedural due process case brought under § 1983, Title 42, U.S.Code (1982), presents this single issue on appeal: Does Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill, 470 U.S. 532, 105 S.Ct. 1487, 84 L.Ed.2d 494 (1985), aff'g, 721 F.2d 550 (6th Cir.1983), require that a discharged municipal employee receive a pretermination hearing before a neutral and impartial decision-maker rather than before the supervisor who fired him? The District Court, and the panel decision of our Court which has now been vacated by the grant of en banc review (see Rule 14, Rules of the…