Payne v. Ballard

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROY, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Ken Payne, brought this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that his termination as an employee of the Cotton Boll Vocational Technical School violated his rights of procedural and substantive due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, specifically alleging that he had both a property and liberty interest in his continued employment with the defendants. Additionally, plaintiff alleged that the actions of the defendants in terminating him were in violation of the employee grievance and appeal procedure in effect at the time of…