Legal Opinion
Kelvin S. Moulton v. City of Beaumont
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 20, 1993No. 92-4117PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge.
In this case a city employee in Texas appeals a district court’s directed verdict against him on the issue of whether he had a protected property interest in his employment. The district court found that the employee did not have a property interest in his employment as a matter of law. Consequently, the court directed a verdict against the employee in his suit for an alleged violation of substantive due process rights that stemmed from his termination. We affirm.
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The plaintiff, Kelvin Moulton, worked for the City of Beaumont, 1 from January 1985 to June 1989 when he was…
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