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PITTMAN v. WILSON COUNTY

No. 87-1639.

839 F.2d 225 (1988)

Vickie L. PITTMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WILSON COUNTY; Garry C. Mercer, individually and in his official capacity as County Manager; Danny Hickman, individually and in his official capacity as Director of the Emergency Communications Center; Mack Bissett; Jean Edmundson; Frank Emory; Raeford Flowers; Preston Harrell; Norwood J. Whitley, Jr.; W.D.P. Sharpe, III, individually and in their official capacities as Wilson County Commissioners, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 22, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Travis Payne (Edelstein & Payne, Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

James Redfern Morgan, Jr. (Charles F. Vance, Jr., Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Winston-Salem, N.C., George A. Weaver, Lee, Reece & Weaver, Wilson, N.C., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before POWELL, Associate Justice (Retired), United States Supreme Court, sitting by designation, and RUSSELL and ERVIN, Circuit Judges.

POWELL, Associate Justice:

The issue presented is whether appellant had a property right in her employment with Wilson County, North Carolina. We agree with the district court that no such property right existed, and affirm.

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In June 1983, after being employed as a dispatcher with the Wilson County Sheriff's office for approximately two and one half years, appellant Vickie Pittman began employment as a telecommunicator at the Wilson County Emergency...

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