Legal Opinion
Mariette Wallace v. Shreve Memorial Library
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 20, 1996No. 95-30223PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff Mariette Wallace was fired from her library assistant job with Shreve Memorial Library in September 1992. Wallace sued the library, claiming that it violated her Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights by firing her without a hearing. Wallace claims that under Louisiana law she had a protectable property interest in her job in two ways: (1) the library’s employment manual modified her at will employment status, thus providing that she would only be fired for cause and (2) she is a permanent classified employee under the Louisiana civil service system. We find…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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3Cited by43 opinions
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