Thompson v. Community Action of Greater Wilmington, Inc.

OPINION

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Richard Thompson, instituted this action pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (“section 1983”) against the Community Action Agency of Greater Wilmington (“CAGW”) and certain officers and members of the CAGW Board of Directors. 1 Thompson alleges violations of his First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights in connection with his dismissal as Comptroller of CAGW. Plaintiff also urges three pendent state claims: first, that defendant Fitchett libeled or slandered him; second, that all the individual defendants…