Peterson v. Atlanta Housing Authority

FAY, Circuit Judge:

Shirley Peterson, a former employee of the Atlanta Housing Authority (“AHA”), appeals several rulings of the district court as erroneous in her suit against AHA challenging her termination from her job as a violation of her rights to substantive and procedural due process, a violation of her First Amendment rights, a state breach of contract, and an unlawful conspiracy in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The district court dismissed Peterson’s claims as to substantive and procedural due process insofar as they relied on a claimed liberty interest, finding that Peterson’s…