Randall v. City of Niagara Falls

MEMORANDUM and ORDER

ELFVIN, District Judge.

The plaintiff seeks damages pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for the defendant’s alleged failure to accord him fair consideration for employment in view of his high placement on a Civil Service List. The defendant claims that the plaintiff has been accorded all rights he may have had with respect to such consideration inasmuch as he had previously worked in a similar position with the defendant and that, therefore, there had been no need to grant him an interview. A four-day nonjury trial was held, after which the parties filed their respectively…