Banks v. REDEVELOPMENT AUTH. OF CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CAHN, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Joseph Banks, was a permanent employee of defendant Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (“RDA”), 1 with duties including checking appraisals of property condemned by the RDA. He brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for deprivation of his fourteenth amendment rights to procedural due process and to equal protection. He added a pendent state claim for breach of his employment contract.

The grounds for this action are that plaintiff was fired without a hearing and, he alleges, without cause. He was told his discharge was…