Legal Opinion
Kraig Graham v. City of Philadelphia
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 25, 2005No. 03-3372PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FISHER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents the issue of whether a public employee terminated from employment because of an arrest, and then acquitted of the charges leading to that arrest in a criminal trial, is entitled to a name-clearing hearing as the remedy for a governmental entity’s deprivation of the employee’s due process liberty interest. The District Court concluded that criminal trials and name-clearing hearings are distinct and therefore the former do not obviate the need for the latter. We conclude, however, that Graham’s criminal trial provided him ample…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Mathews v. EldridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Paul v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Washington v. HarperSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
- Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division v. CraftSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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3Cited by41 opinions
- Keith A. Hill v. Borough of Kutztown and Gennaro Marino, Mayor of Kutztown, in His Individual and Official CapacityCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2006
- Baraka v. McGreeveyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2007
- Segal v. City Of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2006
- Dee v. Borough of DunmoreCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2008
- Segal v. City of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2006
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