Fields v. Durham

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

This case comes to us on remand from the Supreme Court.—U.S. -, 110 S.Ct. 1313, 108 L.Ed.2d 489 (1990). It was brought by Ralph Fields, a dismissed community college dean, against several college and local officials whom Fields alleges discharged him without due process. We originally upheld the district court’s summary judgment dismissal of the case on the basis of Parratt v. Taylor, 451 U.S. 527, 101 S.Ct. 1908, 68 L.Ed.2d 420 (1981), and Hudson v. Palmer, 468 U.S. 517, 104 S.Ct. 3194, 82 L.Ed.2d 393 (1984), reasoning that because the officials’ alleged failure to…