DERSTEIN v. STATE OF KAN.

Nos. 89-3171, 89-3198.

915 F.2d 1410 (1990)

Leslie R. DERSTEIN, Plaintiff, Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. The STATE OF KANSAS, Marjorie Van Buren, Steven Seyb, Herbert W. Walton, Kay Falley, Jess L. Danner, Defendants, and Page W. Benson, J. Patrick Brazil and John M. Jaworsky, Defendants, Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 1, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian G. Grace, Wichita, Kan., for plaintiff, appellee, cross-appellant.

Carl A. Gallagher, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert T. Shephan, Atty. Gen., and Nancy L. Ulrich, Asst. Atty. Gen., with him on the briefs), Topeka, Kan., for defendants, appellants, cross-appellees.

Before TACHA and SETH, Circuit Judges, and KANE, District Judge.


SETH, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, a former court services officer, brought this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against three state district court judges alleging he was unlawfully terminated of employment in response to allegations of sexual harassment. The crux of plaintiff's complaint is that the circumstances of his discharge violated his liberty and property interest without due process of law.

After a bench trial, the district court...

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