Tedesco v. City of Stamford

The dispositive issue in this appeal and cross appeal is whether a municipal employee whose employment was terminated was afforded his fourteenth amendment right to procedural due process by the union grievance procedures established under a collective bargaining agreement.1 The plaintiff, Benjamin Tedesco,2 appeals from the judgment of the Appellate Court reversing the trial court’s award to the plaintiff of compensatory damages and attorney’s fees for the violation of 42 U.S.C. § 19833 by the defendant, the city *235of Stamford.4 The defendant cross appeals from the judgment of the Appellate…