BRADLEY v. COLONIAL MENTAL HEALTH & RET. SERVICES

Nos. 87-3093, 87-3094.

856 F.2d 703 (1988)

Thomas BRADLEY; Brenda Bradley, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COLONIAL MENTAL HEALTH and RETARDATION SERVICES BOARD; Marilyn Duguid, Individually and in her official capacity as Executive Director of the Colonial Mental Health and Retardation Services Board; Harris W. Daniel, Individually and in his official capacity as Executive Director of the Colonial Mental Health and Retardation Services Board; Fred Mitchell, Individually and in his official capacity as Substance Abuse Program Director of the Colonial Mental Health and Retardation Services Board, Defendants-Appellees. Thomas BRADLEY; Brenda Bradley, Plaintiffs-Appellees v. COLONIAL MENTAL HEALTH AND RETARDATION SERVICES BOARD; Harris W. Daniel, Individually and in his official capacity as Executive Director of the Colonial Mental Health and Retardation Services Board; Fred Mitchell, Individually and in his official capacity as Substance Abuse Program Director of the Colonial Mental Health and Retardation Services Board, Defendants-Appellants, and Marilyn Duguid, Individually and in her official capacity as Executive Director of the Colonial Mental Health and Retardation Services Board, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 19, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Kevin Griffin, Williamsburg, Va., (Parker & Lytle, on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Eva Susan Tashjian-Brown (Scott S. Cairns, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Richmond, Va., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before PHILLIPS and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges, and BRITT, Chief, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.


SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

Thomas and Brenda Bradley appeal from the district court's entry of summary judgment in favor of their former employer, the Colonial Mental Health and Retardation Services Board (the Board), in their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging wrongful discharge in violation of the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment. The Board terminated the Bradleys' employment as mental health workers1 after concluding they...

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