Legal Opinion
Lawson v. Umatilla County
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 18, 1998No. Nos. 96-36060, 97-35634PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALDISERT, Circuit Judge:
This appeal by Umatilla County, Oregon from an adverse judgment in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by Kevin Lawson, a discharged County employee, requires us to decide if Lawson possessed a constitutionally-protected property interest that prevented the County from terminating him without providing the procedural due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we reverse.
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The County hired Lawson as coordinator of its Commission on Children and Families in February 1993. The…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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