WRIGHT v. CAYAN

No. 526, Docket 86-7775.

817 F.2d 999 (1987)

Cynthia Grantham WRIGHT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Peter J. CAYAN, Individually and as President of the State University of New York College of Technology, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 4, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel S. Cohen, Utica, N.Y., for plaintiff-appellant.

Judith I. Ratner, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of N.Y. (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of N.Y., Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Sol. Gen., Nancy A. Spiegel, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of N.Y., Albany, N.Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before KAUFMAN, TIMBERS and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges.


MAHONEY, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Cynthia Grantham Wright appeals from a grant of summary judgment, 642 F.Supp. 947, to defendant-appellee Peter J. Cayan in an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) for deprivation of Wright's property right in her employment by the state. Specifically, Wright argues that she should not have been dismissed from her job without cause and a hearing. We affirm.

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