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BURTON v. TOWN OF LITTLETON

No. 05-1015.

426 F.3d 9 (2005)

Fran BURTON, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. TOWN OF LITTLETON, Vincent Franco, and Gerard Dery, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 14, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd H. Anderson, with whom Law Offices of Floyd H. Anderson, P.C., was on brief, for appellant.

Patricia M. Rapinchuk, with whom Dorothy Varon and Robinson Donovan, P.C., were on brief, for appellees.

Before SELYA and LYNCH, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

This case raises the question of what constitutes public dissemination of allegedly false and defamatory information sufficient to trigger due process hearing protections for public employees. See Bd. of Regents v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 573, 92 S.Ct. 2701, 33 L.Ed.2d 548 (1972). The controversy arose from the termination of Fran Burton from her job as a public school teacher in Littleton, Massachusetts. The...

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