WALLACE v. SHREVE MEMORIAL LIBRARY

No. 95-30223.

79 F.3d 427 (1996)

Mariette WALLACE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SHREVE MEMORIAL LIBRARY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 20, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Charles Milkovich, Shreveport, LA, for plaintiff-appellant.

Lawrence W. Pettiette, Jr., Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin & Roberts, Shreveport, LA, for Shreve Memorial Library.

Brian E. Crawford, Susan Nunez Belsom, Crawford and Anzelmo, Monroe, LA, Bruce Jones Brumfield, Jr., Monroe, LA, for Shreve Mem. Library and Colon.

Thomas G. Zentner, Jr., Theus, Grisham, Davis & Leigh, Monroe, LA, for Shreve Mem. Library and Commerce & Industry Ins. Co.

Sidney Earl Cook, Jr., Shreveport, LA, for Auto. Ins. Co. of Hartford Connecticut.

David Edmond Marquette, O'Neal Walsh, O'Neal Walsh & Associates, Baton Rouge, LA, for American Mfrs. Mut. Ins. Co.

Before GARWOOD, EMILIO M. GARZA and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.


DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Mariette Wallace was fired from her library assistant job with Shreve Memorial Library in September 1992. Wallace sued the library, claiming that it violated her Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights by firing her without a hearing. Wallace claims that under Louisiana law she had a protectable property interest in her job in two ways: (1) the library's employment manual modified her at will employment status, thus providing that...

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