Williams v. St. Louis County

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Ernest Williams appeals from the District Court’s denial of his motion to vacate a January 7, 1986 order dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit. Williams’s complaint alleged that the defendants had deprived him of certain property without due process. The District Court dismissed the complaint on the ground that Missouri law provided Williams adequate postdeprivation remedies for his loss, citing Parratt v. Taylor, 451 U.S. 527, 539-44, 101 S.Ct. 1908, 1914-17, 68 L.Ed.2d 420 (1980), and Allen v. City of Kinloch, 763 F.2d 335 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 106 S.Ct.…