WELBERN v. HUNT

No. 88-2005.

874 F.2d 532 (1989)

Wendell WELBERN, Jr., Appellee, v. Dennis HUNT, individually and in his official capacity as City Administrator of the City of Fort Smith; Bob Wright, individually and in his official capacity as Director of Operations of the City of Fort Smith; Charles Angel, individually and in his official capacity as Personnel Director of the City of Fort Smith; David Beckman, Ed Gross, Ray Stewart, William Shell, Bill Maddox, and Alan Langdon, individually and in their official capacities as City Directors of the City of Fort Smith; William D. Vinces, individually and in his official capacity as Mayor of Fort Smith; Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 9, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry L. Canfield, Fort Smith, Ark., for appellants.

Philip E. Kaplan, Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, and ARNOLD and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges.


ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Wendell Welbern lost his job as Assistant Director of Operations for the City of Fort Smith, Arkansas, when administrators for the City decided to eliminate his job position in 1986. Welbern claims that a municipal ordinance guaranteed him placement in some other job in his department, and that the named City administrators violated his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process by terminating him without...

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